Regulation No. 679/2014 – Personal Data – Concept and Examples
There are only a few days left until the new legislation on personal data protection comes into effect, specifically Regulation 679/2016 concerning the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) issued by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.
This legislative act ensures the highest framework of personal data protection in the world, as no country has so far implemented a normative act that guarantees such a level of protection for natural persons.
In an increasingly connected world where personal data is processed by multiple companies in their daily activities, especially in the digital environment, understanding the new rules is of real interest to everyone. From my point of view, to understand the new rules, one must first understand the object of the legislative act, namely what is meant by the notion of “personal data.”
After analyzing all the reports published by the competent control authorities in the European Union, as well as all the rulings issued by the European Court of Justice of the European Union over the past 20 years, I have compiled a detailed material on the notion of “personal data,” with multiple examples.
The material is intended for both companies (in their capacity as personal data operators) and individuals (in their capacity as data subjects whose data is or may be processed).
