The present study aims to provide some clarification on the processing of personal data by police officers in the context of witnessing violations of traffic on public roads. Specifically, it is necessary to delimit between the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter GDPR), on the one hand, and Directive 2016/680 on the other hand, regarding the protection of individuals with regard to processing of persona...

Few months after the enforcement of what may be called the most renowned Regulation of the European Union, an analysis of the positioning of the subjects of the General Data Protection Regulation proves to be necessary, in order to debunk some myths issued by the lack of knowledge of its contents. The study concerns not only its most important subjects – the controller and the processor – but also the involved institutions and authoritie...