Technology development and digitalization have reshaped business models and made data one of the key resources in business ecosystem. Organizations have become more focused on gathering and processing personal data for the purpose of gaining competitive advantage and profit. Consequently, the importance of personal data protection has significantly grown, since one of the fundamental civil rights, the right of privacy, has become more jeopardized than ever before. This caused major changes in the European Union (EU) legislation related to personal data protection, which resulted in the introduction of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The new regime significantly increases the protection of EU data subjects, but also demands all controllers and processors of personal data to adjust their business in order to avoid huge fines for non-compliance. This paper deals with project management in the process of implementing GDPR provisions.
Personal data protection is becoming a major research topic in the last decades. With the technological advances, this issue was given a completely new perspective, due to increased possibilities for both use and misuse. Personal data have become a very valuable resource for different organizations worldwide in various sectors. However, regardless the efforts and constant legislation processes, personal data protection has still not been adequately managed, especially in developing countries such as Serbia. The motivation for this research was the big leak of personal data collected by the Serbian Privatisation Agency that occurred in 2014. During the research we analyzed legal, organizational and technical aspects of personal data management in six public institutions that are the largest personal data processors in Serbia. In this paper we provide the overview of the current situation and the recommendations for policy makers related to personal data protection in Serbia with a focus on the public sector.
Video surveillance, the monitoring of a specific area, event, activity or person through an electronic device or a system for visual monitoring is already established as a central tool of public security policy. Video surveillance represents a starting point for implementing advanced technologies such as automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) and automatic facial recognition (AFR), which tend to become standards in many urban areas. Based on the increased use of video surveillance technologies, governments and private actors’ capabilities in terms of monitoring of the population and potentially violating fundamental human rights are colossally increased. The article will provide a comparative analysis of national regulatory frameworks of video surveillance in public spaces in former Yugoslav states and its compliance with standards provided by new data protection regulatory framework, particularly General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The article will also give an overview of the major violations of the right to privacy by video surveillance and insight into and potential impact of new projects and technologies currently under deployment in the observed countries.
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