The data protection regime in 2021 was an anchor in the immediate reality, especially on the Internet, but also in the offline activities of controllers and data subjects. This report highlights the some of the most important elements regarding the institutional developments, the sanctioning regime and the commentary of a judgment of the Court of Justice, being provided recent bibliographical sources in the matter of reference.

The year 2020 was an important one for data protection and cybersecurity, first of all as a result of the intervention of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, a context that made it difficult for authorities, data controllers, data subjects, but also boosted the use of the Internet. Using applications increases the risk of data security breaches. The authors propose a useful radiograph to practitioners, but also to the...

The forced digitization of any activity, which takes place through the Internet, has brought not only the possibility of continuing the activity in the light of the restrictions imposed by the pandemic but also the addition of risks for controllers. Most risks relate to the security of the processing of personal data, the encrypted transfer of data, the use of legal grounds for specific purposes as well as the confidentiality and integr...

This paper analyses the right to education, as it is provided for in European documents (Article 2 of the Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and Article 14 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union) as well as in national documents (Constitution of Romania, Article 32 „Right to education”), from the point of view of the interpretation given to it by th...

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...

Data protection in Romania can be made in accordance with the status of the controller, meaning either public authority/body or private entity. Operators that are public authorities or bodies have specific rights and obligation, which sometimes are different from those of private entities. The national data protection authority shall have precise tasks with regard to public entities. All these provisions are laid down in nationa...