Cybersecurity

A recent decision of the Belgian Council of State shines a first light on the enforcement of the Schrems II ruling of the European Court of Justice in Belgium.

In this blog, we briefly present a first judgement of a Belgian Court that sentenced a person for spreading hateful internet memes on social networks.

In this blog, we briefly present a Belgian legislative proposition to criminalise 'doxing'.

 

The Belgian Constitutional Court has validated the law of 1 September 2016, removing the possibility to buy a prepaid mobile phone card anonymously.

On 15 February 2022, the European Data Protection Supervisor published Preliminary Remarks on Modern Spyware. In fact, this document directly targets the Pegasus spyware developed by an Israeli company. 

The Grand Chamber of the CJEU confirms that EU law precludes national legislative measures which provide for the general and indiscriminate retention of traffic and location data relating to e-communications, for the purpose of combating serious crime.

On 22 March, the EU published two new proposals of regulation on 'cybersecurity at the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union' and on 'information security in the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union'.