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Belgian intelligence grapples with prohibition of bulk collection and storage of data by phone operators

Belgium's constitutional court followed the hard line taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a landmark ruling last October, making the intelligence services' work more complicated. [...] (345 words)

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