Belgian Constitutional Court Annuls Data Retention Framework for Electronic Communications Data
On April 22, 2021, the Belgian Constitutional Court annulled the framework set forth by the Law of 29 May 2016 requiring telecommunications providers to retain electronic communications data in bulk.
The Constitutional Court found that, although retention of communications data is allowed under certain circumstances, the Law did not comply with any of the exceptions described by the CJEU, and the court therefore annulled the provisions of the Law that required such data storage.
