The Hungarian Data Protection Authority has recently published its Summary Report for 2012 in English which is a snapshot of the first months of a new Authority replacing the Data…
The Act No CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information introduced excessively burdensome data protection registration requirements for data controllers. Under the new rules, notification of data…
The European Commission announced today that it will launch accelerated infringement proceedings against Hungary, inter alia, due to the violation of independence of its data protection authority, since the new data protection legislation of Hungary prematurely terminated the Data Protection Commissioner’s term which should have originally ended only in 2014.
The respective press release is available here: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/24&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
