New Grounds for Civil Liability under National Law in the Light of Article 79 of the GDPR

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the functioning of Article 79 of the GDPR in the Polish legal system and in other countries. The above provision establishes the right to an effective judicial remedy against a controller or processor, which is to guarantee the protection of personal data in relation to the data subjects. The paper submits to a dogmatic and comparative analysis those regulations that concern the right to an effective legal remedy in the field of personal data protection based on the example of Polish legal regulations, but also with reference to France, Germany and Great Britain to comprehensively study solutions on the issues in question.