Belgium: Privacy Protection

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that national competition authorities may seize business emails during dawn raids without prior court authorization, provided the seizures are legally grounded and strictly limited to the inspection's subject matter. While the decision grants authorities significant power, it establishes important safeguards, particularly for mixed-use devices containing both professional and private data, which may require prior judicial review before access is permitted

The Court of Justice of the European Union has issued a landmark ruling clarifying the extent to which National Competition Authorities can seize business emails and access employees' personal devices during antitrust inspections. The judgment addresses the critical balance between effective competition enforcement and fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, establishing new procedural safeguards that will impact how dawn raids are conducted across the EU.

Who has never found themselves clicking on a huge green button underneath the privacy settings, convinced that this would validate their choices, only to realise that they had just, against all odds, accepted all the default settings?

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