scholarly journals Recenzja książki Vasiliki Kosta, Fundamental Rights in EU Internal Market Legislation, Oxford and Portland, Oregon 2015, 330 s.

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-270
Author(s):  
Joanna Ryszka
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Right ◽  
Integration Area ◽  
The Eu

Implementation of the internal market is one of the basic aims of cooperation between Member States within the EU, being at the same time an integration area that is perceived positively by both their supporters and opponents. Issues related to the implementation of the internal market freedoms are even more interesting in its confrontation with the protection of fundamental rights. This is undoubtedly a significant issue when we think about the degree of identification of the Union citizens with the Union itself. The reviewed monograph takes all the above-mentioned elements, focusing in particular on examining how and to what extent the protection of these rights is implemented in the EU legislation on the internal market. The scientific analysis carried out within its scope covered such important and basic rights as personal data protection, freedom of expression, basic rights related to the performance of work and the right to health protection.

scholarly journals The Contributions Of CJEU In The Name Of The Principle Of Balancing – A Test Of The Role Of The Court?

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-478
Author(s):  
Gina Orga-Dumitriu
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Fundamental Freedoms ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

Abstract From the traditional functions of the general principles of the EU law – of interpretation, completion of the gaps and legality control, the principle of balancing seems to meet the most the exigencies of the first of these. The limits of the role of CJEU are certainly put to the test when it is called to settle conflicts between fundamental rights/fundamental freedoms. The trends formulated in Schmidberger (on the conflict between the free circulation of the commodities and the freedom of expression) or Promusicae (on the conflict between the right to the effective protection of the intellectual property and the right to the respect of the private life and the protection of the personal data) are more than illustrative. The doctrine assessments of the action of this principle reflect three fields in which the applicability thereof tends to reserve to the Court a role that is susceptible of creating controversies on its traditional extension. According to the authorized voice of Professor Norbert Reich, the balancing in the jurisprudence on the abusive clauses, the balancing for the avoidance of excessive protection and the balancing in social conflicts (making visible an aggravation of the conflict between fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms) are concerned.

scholarly journals Applicable Law to Transnational Personal Data: Trends and Dynamics

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1283-1308
Author(s):  
Jie (Jeanne) Huang
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Applicable Law ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Regional Coordination ◽  
The Law ◽  
Model Law ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe recent COVID-19 outbreak has pushed the tension of protecting personal data in a transnational context to an apex. Using a real case where the personal data of an international traveler was illegally released by Chinese media, this Article identifies three trends that have emerged at each stage of conflict-of-laws analysis for lex causae: (1) The EU, the US, and China characterize the right to personal data differently; (2) the spread-out unilateral applicable law approach comes from the fact that all three jurisdictions either consider the law for personal data protection as a mandatory law or adopt connecting factors leading to the law of the forum; and (3) the EU and China strongly advocate deAmericanization of substantive data protection laws. The trends and their dynamics provide valuable implications for developing the choice of laws for transnational personal data. First, this finding informs parties that jurisdiction is a predominant issue in data breach cases because courts and regulators would apply the law of the forum. Second, currently, there is no international treaty or model law on choice-of-law issues for transnational personal data. International harmonization efforts will be a long and difficult journey considering how the trends demonstrate not only the states’ irreconcilable interests but also how states may consider these interests as their fundamental values that they do not want to trade off. Therefore, for states and international organizations, a feasible priority is to achieve regional coordination or interoperation among states with similar values on personal data protection.

scholarly journals Should Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection be a Part of the EU's International Trade ‘Deals’?

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
SVETLANA YAKOVLEVA
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
International Trade Agreements ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Trade Deals ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis article discusses ways in which the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and post-GATS free trade agreements may limit the EU's ability to regulate privacy and personal data protection as fundamental rights. After discussing this issue in two dimensions – the vertical relationship between trade and national and European Union (EU) law, and the horizontal relationship between trade and human rights law – the author concludes that these limits are real and pose serious risks.Inspired by recent developments in safeguarding labour, and environmental standards and sustainable development, the article argues that privacy and personal data protection should be part of, and protected by, international trade deals made by the EU. The EU should negotiate future international trade agreements with the objective of allowing them to reflect the normative foundations of privacy and personal data protection. This article suggests a specific way to achieve this objective.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Schengen Borders: Automated Processing, Algorithmic Profiling and Facial Recognition in the Era of Techno-Solutionism

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-484
Author(s):  
Niovi Vavoula
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Since the past three decades, an elaborate legal framework on the operation of EU-Schengen information systems has been developed, whereby in the near future a series of personal data concerning almost all third-country nationals (TCN s) with an administrative or criminal law link with the EU/Schengen area will be monitored through at least one information system. This article provides a legal analysis on the embedment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools at the EU level in information systems for TCN s and critically examines the fundamental rights concerns that ensue from the use AI to manage and control migration. It discusses automated risk assessment and algorithmic profiling used to examine applications for travel authorisations and Schengen visas, the shift towards the processing of facial images of TCN s and the creation of future-proof information systems that anticipate the use of facial recognition technology. The contribution understands information systems as enabling the datafication of mobility and as security tools in an era whereby a foreigner is risky by default. It is argued that a violation of the right to respect for private life is merely the gateway for a series of other fundamental rights which are impacted, such as non-discrimination and right to effective remedies.

scholarly journals The Right to Privacy—A Fundamental Right in Search of Its Identity: Uncovering the CJEU’s Flawed Concept of the Right to Privacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. 722-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin M. Pfisterer
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Right To Privacy ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

AbstractIn recent years, the CJEU has impressively brought to bear the protection of the fundamental rights to privacy and protection of personal data as contained in the CFREU. The Court’s decisions in the Digital Rights, Schrems, Tele2, and PNR cases have reshaped the political and legal landscape in Europe and beyond. By restricting the powers of the governments of EU Member States and annulling legislative acts enacted by the EU legislator, the decisions had, and continue to have, effects well beyond the respective individual cases. Despite their strong impact on privacy and data protection across Europe, however, these landmark decisions reveal a number of flaws and inconsistencies in the conceptualization of the rights to privacy and protection of personal data as endorsed and interpreted by the CJEU. This Article identifies and discusses some of the shortcomings revealed in the recent CJEU privacy and data protection landmark decisions and proposes to the CJEU a strategy aimed at resolving these shortcomings going forward.

scholarly journals “Tiesības tikt aizmirstam” kā tiesības uz privātumu un to tiesiskais regulējums

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sitņikova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
The Right To Privacy ◽  
Right To Be Forgotten ◽  
European Court ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

“Tiesības tikt aizmirstam” ir samērā jauns tiesību institūts, kura aktualizēšanas priekšnosacījums ir tehnoloģiju attīstība un globalizācija, kas šobrīd ļauj padarīt informāciju, tostarp arī personas datus un sensitīvus datus, publiski pieejamu visā pasaulē. Iepriekš minētais rada nepieciešamību veicināt personas datu aizsardzību. “Tiesības tikt aizmirstam” īpaši tika aktualizētas saistībā ar Eiropas Savienības tiesas lēmumu lietā C-131/12 Google Spain SL, Google Inc. pret Agencia de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González (t. s. Google v Spain lieta). Arī Eiropas Cilvēktiesību tiesa saskaras ar jaunām koncepcijām, no kurām viena ir “tiesības tikt aizmirstam”. Veicot pētījumu, tika iegūtas šādas atziņas: “tiesības tikt aizmirstam” var tikt iekļautas zem privātuma tiesībām, un šīs tiesības izriet no spēkā esošiem gan Eiropas Savienības tiesību aktiem, gan Latvijas Republikas normatīvajiem aktiem. The “right to be forgotten” is a relatively new legal institution and the prerequisites for it are rapid technological developments and globalisation, which now allow to make information, including personal data and sensitive data, publicly available worldwide. The above mentioned requires the enhancement of the personal data protection. The “right to be forgotten” had been brought up to date particularly in relation to the EU Court of Justice’s decision in case C-131/12 Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González. The European Court of Human Rights is facing new concepts such as that of the “right to be forgotten”. The following conclusions are made when conducting the research: the “right to be forgotten” is the element of the right to privacy, and it can be derived from the existing EU law and Latvian regulation.

scholarly journals GENERAL REGULATION ON PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION. CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE GDPR'S IMPACT ON LEGAL ENTITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1487-1490
Author(s):  
Merisa Çeloaliaj
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legal Entities

Actuality, recent, has made us witnesses of rapid technological developments, as part of the globalization process, which inevitably affect to our lives.Technological developments facilitate our day-to-day life starting from the most common aspects and advancing at the speed of light to more complex processes that the human mind would not have been able to solve in the same space of time and with the same resources utilized. Free movement, downloading different apps on our smartphones, shopping online or the registering on social networks are just some of the activities that each of us performs daily, often without being aware of what brings these activities together is actually an action, which is legally called "processing of personal data of the individual".Often with the help of technology, private companies and public authorities collect personal information from clients, services receivers or ordinary citizens and they use it to an unprecedented extent in the pursuit of their activities and goals. The protection of personal data of individuals is in fact a fundamental right, which is sanctioned by a legislation of particular importance in international and domestic law.Even in the Albanian legal order, the right to protection of personal data is sanctioned by a specific legal corpus. In the context of the particular importance of the sensitivity that personal data bears, the European Union has adopted the GDPR, an improved act that reinforces the level of protection of the individual against bureaucracy and rapid technological developments.This modest paper focuses on the impact of this regulation in Albania on public and private legal entities that collect and process personal data.How will the GDPR affect, as an act focusing on respect for private and family life, housing and communications, personal data protection, free thought, conscience and religion, freedom of expression and information, freedom to perform business, the right to effective protection and fair trial in terms of cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, decision-making and activity of various entities in the Republic of Albania?The structure of this paper includes in the introductory section a brief history of the relevant legal acts, goes on to explain some specific terms and addresses important aspects of the impact on legal entities of the latest European Union regulation in the field of protection of personal data.

scholarly journals Ochrona danych osobowych i kierunki zmian w tej dziedzinie w prawie Unii Europejskiej

2014 ◽  
pp. 55-91
Author(s):  
Anastazja Gajda
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Policy Communication ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Comprehensive Reform ◽  
The Eu

The paper concentrates on the protection of personal data in the European Union. The paper presents a comprehensive reform of the data protection frame‑ work, proposed by the European Commission in January 2012, including a policy Communication setting out the Commission’s objectives and two legislative pro‑ posals: a regulation setting out a general EU framework for data protection and a directive on protecting personal data processed for the purposes of prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of criminal offences and related judicial activities. Both proposals concern the question of ensuring effective protection of fundamental rights. The analysis of the proposed legislation shows nevertheless that in this shape they do not lead to consistency and uniformity of the entire system of personal data protection in the EU. Significant differences in both proposals concern including different subject matter and material scope, effective protection of fundamental rights and the establishment of the hierarchy of the existing legal acts in this area.

scholarly journals El impacto de la digitalización en los derechos fundamentales del personal empleado público en España

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Aitziber Lertxundi Lertxundi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Context ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
General Information ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Personal Data Protection ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Laburpena: Lan honetan, erakundearen ikuspegitik eta ikuspegi esploratzailearekin, digitalizazioak Espainian enplegatu publikoen oinarrizko eskubideetan duen eragina ebaluatu dugu. Zehatzago esanda, lehenik eta behin, digitalizazioak erakundearen hainbat arlotan duen garrantziari buruzko informazio orokorra biltzea eta aztertzea du helburu, osatzen duten elementuen lehentasuna, bere garapen maila eta ezarpenerako zailtasunak antzemanez. Bigarrenez, komunikazioan, norbere irudian, datu pertsonalen babesean eta deskonektatzeko eskubidean duen eragina aztertu nahi izan da. Hirugarrenez, dakartzan lan-arrisku berriak (fisikoak eta psikosozialak) antzematea izan du helburu eta, amaitzeko, erakundearen testuinguruan oinarrizko eskubideak babesteko aurrera eraman beharko liratekeen zenbait ekintza proposatzea. Resumen: En este trabajo abordamos, con una aproximación organizativa y exploratoria, la evaluación del impacto de la digitalización en los derechos fundamentales del personal empleado público en España, desde una perspectiva organizativa. Más concretamente, tiene como objetivos, en primer lugar, recabar y analizar la información general sobre la relevancia que la digitalización está teniendo en diversas áreas de la organización, en la prioridad de los distintos elementos que la conforman, en su grado de desarrollo y en las dificultades en su implementación. En segundo lugar, analizar cuál está siendo su impacto en las comunicaciones y en el derecho a la propia imagen, en la protección de los datos personales y en el derecho a la desconexión. En tercer lugar, identificar los nuevos riesgos laborales (físicos y psicosociales) que entraña y, para finalizar, proponer algunas acciones que deberían de llevarse a cabo para preservar los derechos fundamentales en el contexto organizacional. Abstract: In this work, with an exploratory approach and from an organizational perspective, we aim to evaluate the impact of digitalization on fundamental rights of public employees in Spain. More specifically, it aims, in the first place, to collect and analyze general information on the relevance that digitalization is having in different areas of the organization, in the priority of different elements it is comprised of, in its degree of development, as well as in the difficulties in its implementation. Second, it seeks to analyze its impact on communications and the right to self image, personal data protection and the right to disconnection. Third, we intend to identify new occupational risks (physical and psychosocial) that digitalization entails. Finally, we propose some actions that should be considered to protect fundamental rights in the organizational context.

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