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Technical audit · 26.05.2026

bosa.belgium.be

Belgian Federal Public Service for Policy and Support
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Belgium's Federal Public Service for Policy and Support (FPS BOSA) — 44 requests, a single domain. All resources, including fonts, are hosted locally on the proprietary domain within the state network; no external requests, trackers, or cookies. The Matomo analytics tool declared in belgium.be's cookie policy does not fire in this session. No violations recorded.

Request timeline

+0 ms · portal load
All resources — HTML, styles, scripts, fonts, images — served from the proprietary domain bosa.belgium.be (Belnet network, Varnish cache).
local fonts
Fonts (woff2/woff) are served from the proprietary domain, with no requests to external font services.
session state — no consent
Zero Set-Cookie headers for the entire session. No third-party trackers requiring consent are present.
no third-party requests
No analytics, Google, maps, advertising, or session recording appear in the measurement; Matomo is not activated.

Declared versus actual

✓ FPS BOSA's general privacy policy (describes cookies, consent, and statistics) — declared
✓ Matomo — consent-based analytics (in a separate cookie policy for belgium.be) — declared

Context

bosa.belgium.be is the website of Belgium’s Federal Public Service for Policy and Support (SPF Stratégie et Appui / FOD Beleid en Ondersteuning, FPS BOSA), responsible for digital government, public procurement, and personnel policy for the federal administration. FPS BOSA also administers the general state portal belgium.be and its cookie guidance. Controller: FPS BOSA. General privacy policy (roughly 20,000 characters). Measurement: 44 requests, a single domain, captured on a clean browser.

Declared versus actual

The measurement shows a fully self-sufficient page. All resources — markup, styles, scripts, images, and fonts — are loaded from the proprietary domain bosa.belgium.be, hosted on the state Belnet network (the response passes through a Varnish cache). Fonts are served locally, with no requests to external font services. There are no external domains in the measurement at all: no analytics, no Google, no maps, no advertising pixels, no session recording. Checking the proprietary domain’s paths revealed no hidden analytics or build endpoints. No cookies are set (zero Set-Cookie).

The cookie policy of the belgium.be portal, administered by FPS BOSA, describes audience measurement via Matomo-Cloud (data centers in Europe) subject to consent. In this session, Matomo does not fire — no requests to it appear in the measurement. No substantive “declared versus actual” discrepancy therefore arises: the declared analytics tool is not activated here, and there are no third-party trackers.

All requests go to the proprietary domain. No third-party resources requiring consent are present on the page; no cookies are set. For a government site, this is exemplary behavior.

What cannot be claimed from the measurement

The measurement covers the bosa.belgium.be homepage. The Matomo tool declared in the cookie policy may be activated after consent, or on other sections of the belgium.be portal not covered by this measurement. Server-side processing is not visible in a browser-based measurement.

Conclusion

The Federal Public Service for Policy and Support — the body responsible for Belgium’s digital government and state cookie guidance — demonstrates a clean configuration on its own site as measured: all resources and fonts are hosted locally, there are no external requests whatsoever, no trackers or cookies are present, and Matomo does not activate before consent. No violations recorded in this measurement.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: be/bosa-belgium-be-2026-05-26.har
SHA-256: 01868603cb920cf995a0663753f75bcf99a1346d6797a691dff8c27415067f01
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
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Subject: Data access request (GDPR Art. 15) — bosa.belgium.be

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From: [Your name], [contact email]

I request access to my personal data processed in connection with the website bosa.belgium.be.

1. Categories of data and purposes of processing (Art. 15(1)(a)-(c))
I request information on all categories, purposes, and recipients of my data processed on this site — regardless of whether any non-compliance has been identified to date.

2. Recipients, retention periods, and transfers outside the EEA (Art. 15(1)(c)-(d), 46)
I also request the full list of third-party recipients, the applicable retention period for each category, and the legal basis for any transfer of data outside the EEA. The full technical audit with evidence (saved network log, SHA-256 checksum) is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/be-bosa-belgium-be/

3. Automated processing and profiling (Art. 15(1)(h))
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Sincerely,

[Your name]
[contact email]
[Country]


[Date]