Ministry of Privacy is a Belgian non-profit foundation, launched in Ghent in 2020, that acts as a privacy-activist watchdog. Its work runs on four tracks: informing the public, responding to complaints and press questions, teaching organisations and institutions privacy-friendly practice, and litigating when other routes fail. Their case against mandatory fingerprints on the Belgian eID went all the way to the Constitutional Court, and campaigns like covidshitticket.be turned complex policy proposals into something citizens could react to directly.

# Why they matter to us

Belgian privacy fights rarely stay abstract for long: eID fingerprints, bank-balance reporting proposals, the Covid Safe Ticket, and now AI systems are all cases the Ministry of Privacy has taken on directly, in Belgian courts and in the Belgian press. That combination of legal action and plain-language public campaigning is exactly the kind of enforcement BeLibre’s research and advocacy work depends on.

# Where we connect

• Willingness to litigate, not just publish position papers, when privacy law is ignored.
• Plain-language campaigns that make technical privacy issues legible to ordinary citizens.
• Shared scrutiny of government data-collection proposals, from eID to health and financial surveillance.