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On June 11, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled the Belgian law (source document in French) that required electronic communication operators to retain data for one year.

Privacy Commission Provides Opinion On Draft Legislation On Electronic Mortgage And Life Insurance Data

On June 29, the Court of Appeal of Brussels struck down (source document in French and Dutch) a lower court's interim decision barring a social network company from using cookies.

The Antwerp Court of Appeal has recently ruled on a series of cases (December 2023 – October 2024) concerning online copyright infringements. These cases often originated from an intermediary internet...

New innovations include connected remote monitoring devices, patient engagement tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based automated detection and diagnosis, and smart operating rooms.

The EU's AI Act, which came into force on August 1st, 2024, represents the world's first comprehensive AI law with significant global implications. This briefing examines ten key questions about the Act's requirements...

The European Commission has determined that Google violated the Digital Markets Act through anti-competitive practices in its Search and Play services. The investigation revealed systematic preferential treatment...

The European Parliament, by a large majority, passed the draft Network & Information Security directive.

Dr. O.G. had been involved in a car accident causing the death of two persons. This accident was reported in the November 1994 edition of Le Soir featuring a specific reference to Dr. O.G.'s name and surname.

In recent decades, terms like "blockchain" and "smart contracts" have been cropping up everywhere in the media, on the internet and recently also in national and European legislative debates.

In doing so, the .PS Registry joined a growing number of Registries to offer this type of domain name.

The DESI is an online tool to measure the progress of EU Member States towards a digital economy and society.

The European Union's revised Cybersecurity Act advances through legislative procedures while facing significant Member State concerns about EU competence limits in cybersecurity matters. The proposed framework would empower the European Commission to exclude high-risk suppliers from the EU market, but questions arise about whether the EU has authority to act in areas traditionally reserved for national security.

European consumer protection law now requires online traders to provide a clearly labeled withdrawal button on their platforms, implementing a structured two-step process that makes it as easy for consumers to exit contracts as it was to enter them.

On 15 January 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("ECJ") further strengthened the protection of consumers when booking flights online.

Hence, the ECJ found that the German law infringed both the InfoSoc Directive and the Enforcement Directive.