Criminal Protection of Personal Data According to the New General Regulation 679/2016 and Law 4624/2019

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the initial draft replacing Law 2472/1997

With the creation and expansion of the internet and its convergence with digital media, the development and establishment of the so-called network or cyber capitalism have become evident. This system relies on public and private networks for the economy, administration, and social control. The transfer of personal information is now considered sine qua non within these systems. For this reason, stringent limits on the collection and processing of such information-data have been established both at the European and global levels.

At the same time, the boundaries between public/private and private/private spheres of individuals as social beings have become increasingly blurred, with the former expanding at the expense of the latter. Moreover, there is an urgent need to regulate information flow within the functioning of the public/public sphere, such as when an individual interacts with the core of state power, which includes criminal and various other legal proceedings arising from public law—an imperative explicitly recognized in Directive 680/2016 (“Directive”). Meanwhile, the emergence and proliferation of the internet further heighten this necessity.

Read the full article here

Georgios Nouskalis
Assistant Professor of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Lawyer