Surveillance legislation reduces Freedom of Information

BRUSSELS – 19 / 2 / 2010 - The Law Faculty of the KU Leuven organised a seminar on the new BIM-law, that allows Belgian intelligence to apply special intelligence methods. The way the surveillance legislation decreases the Belgian law on Access to Documents legislation "is not possible in a modern democracy", said Professor Frankie Schram.

Author: Kristof Clerix. This article was published in the Flemish magazine MO*. More in Dutch.