Personally identifiable information

The Prosecutor General's Office posted on Saturday evening a message on its Facebook page explaining why personal data were removed from two press releases of the Judiciary Crime Investigation Section regarding the case in which former head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi was prosecuted.

Almost 60,000 personal data breaches have been reported to Europe's regulators since the EU adopted a landmark privacy law, according to figures published on Tuesday that campaigners said should spur people to think twice about what they share online.

Bulgaria's Head of State exercised his power and returned a provision of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Personal Data Protection Act for a new debate in Parliament with objections to the criteria set forth in § 26 for the processing of personal data for journalistic purposes and for the purposes of the academic or literary expression, the press office of the Head of State said on

Serbian citizens' personal data will thus be protected in the same way as in EU member states, the Ministry of Justice said on Monday, on the occasion of Data Privacy Day, Beta agency reported.

Amendments to Bulgaria's Data Protection Law, passed on Thursday without debate in parliament, limit freedom of expression and may result in fresh pressures on the media, the Association of Bulgarian Journalists, AEJ-Bulgaria, warned on 24 January.

The legislation "aims to improve international data exchange and personal data protection, as well as to harmonise domestic legislation with new EU regulations in this area."

New laws on data protection of online consumers enter into force on May 25th in the European Union, Brussels calls them the new global standard after the scandal with stolen data from Facebook.

Is the Athens Transport Organization (OASA) planning to give passengers a pension? If not, why does it want to know their AMKA social security numbers? And that's not all.

The data protection situation in Serbia is "extremely worrisome," Rodoljub Sabic, has said in his annual report.

The commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection made the statement last week, Beta agency reported.

The government's new draft personal data protection law is highly problematic and open to abuse, according to Ak?n Ünver, an assistant professor at Kadir Has University and an executive and supervisory board member of the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM).