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definition of personal data

Do publications in newspapers and books fall under the provisions of the Act on Personal Data Protection?

Are the personal data of the people that passed away protected under the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Data?

Is the information concerning the entities conducting economic activity protected under the provisions of the Act on Personal Data Protection?

employment

Is this admissible under the provisions of the Act on the Protection of Personal Data for the recruitment companies to process personal data of the job applicants acquired from the press announcements in cases in which the employer wishes to remain anonymous?

What is the scope of personal data which can be demanded from the employee by the employer while concluding a contract?

Is it admissible for the employer to publish the personal data of employees on the website without his/her consent?

Is it admissible to acquire data concerning criminal records of the employees in the public and private sector?

the rights of data subjects

What are the rights of the data subject?

What is the territorial scope of the Act on the Protection of Personal Data?

Is it possible to turn to the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection with the request to order the person who sends the unsolicited commercial information to my e – mail to stop such practice?

Is this possible for the data subject to demand the erasure of personal data?

publication of data

transborder data transfer

What is „Safe Harbour” Programme?

Who is to assess whether the prerequisites of the transfer of personal data to a third country have been fulfilled?

direct marketing

registration of the data filing systems

What does obligation of registration of the data filing systems consist in?

Is the portal founder obliged to notify the data filing system including the information about the representatives of the company (names and surnames of the “contact persons”) who registered themselves in the portal to registration by the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection? Is it admissible to send the information about the portal to the companies that might be interested in using the portal by electronic means?

Schengen

Schengen Information System (SIS) – what is it?

What kind of personal data and for what purposes can be kept in the Schengen Information System?

What are the rights of individuals whose personal data are kept in the Schengen Information System?

Who has the access to information kept in the Schengen Information System?

How long can personal data be kept in the Schengen Information System?

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Eurodac

What is Eurodac?

Whose personal data are processed in Eurodac?

What types of personal data can be processed for the purposes of Eurodac?

How long can data collected for the purposes of Eurodac be processed?

What are the rights of data subjects whose data are processed for the purposes of Eurodac?