Protection of Personal Data between EU Regulation 679/2016 and the Reality of National Security

• Author: Alexandru-Adrian Eni
• Pages: 329-339

ISSN: 2067 – 9211 The Youth of Today - The Generation of the Global Development

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Protection of Personal Data between EU Regulation 679/2016 and the

Reality of National Security

Alexandru-Adrian Eni1

Abstract: The subject approached in this paper is of great relevance in the fragmented era we are crossing.

With the development of the information society, the protection of personal data has become a current issue

in the l egal field. By adopting rules regulating access to this information, both at international and national

level, postmodernism has proven its strength in the field of information and information sources, and the

effect mainly found in transforming what was once unitary and consolidated in a dissipated and

uncontrollable present. We should consider that any information r elating to an identified or identifiable

natural person; an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by

reference to an identification number or one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological,

psychological, economic, cultural or social identity. Although some dat a protection reforms have been

adopted by legislators in response to courts acting as reformers in the geo-politicallz context we are crossing,

the EU and courts' approaches to bal ancing national security and data protection remain diametrically

opposite.

Keywords: national; security; data; protection; surveillance; EU; regulation; 679/2016

Introduction

The topic addressed in this paper is highly topical in the computer age that you know. Postmodernism

has proven its strength in the field of information and information sources, and its impact consisted

mainly in transforming what was once unified and consolidated into a dissipated and uncontrollable

present. (Ciupercă & Vlăduţescu, 2010)

Many instances have brandished the status of information sources and have provided a large number

of data boundless mediated by the public, and the various and numerous means of mass

communication.

In this context, it is evident that individuals have at their disposal a range of information and sources

of information, but are exceed a count’s ability to process it. In this regard, most of the times without

having to be aware of, they take matters proposed as priority opinion leaders, or stop at a series of

incomplete information, generating cropped truths.

The concept of protection of personal data means the right of the individual to be protected from those

features leading to its identification and correlative obligation of the State to adopt adequate measures

in order to ensure effective protection of the person.

1 Student, Faculty of Law, Danubius University Galati, Address: 3 Galati Blvd., Galati 800654, Romania, Tel.:

+40372361102, E-mail: alexandru_eni@yahoo.com.