Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.32984/gapzh.14.1.3
On Privacy, the Right to Privacy and its Protection in Croatia: The Criminal Offense of Unauthorized Use of Personal Data
Marta Dragičević Prtenjača
orcid.org/0000-0001-9666-4765
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
Marina Zagorec
; City of Zagreb
Abstract
We live in a world surrounded by new technologies and the Internet, which enable fast, global communication between users and the exchange of large amounts of different data, including personal data. Today almost all online services and social networks that we use collect our personal data as soon as we have accessed them, and we leave the 'personal trail' without even realizing it. By doing so, our privacy becomes visible to a large number of Internet users and exposed to possible attacks. It has to be emphasized that privacy threats are not limited to online activities, but can also occur in real life. Data that are ‘left behind' when performing seemingly routine or everyday activities, e.g. paying bills or entering into contracts, can be easily misused or manipulated.
Therefore, this paper shows the importance of privacy, the right to privacy, and privacy protection through the criminal offense of unauthorized use of personal data (Art. 146 of the Croatian Criminal Code). The goals of this paper are to review the literature and the norms regulating the protection of privacy on the international and regional levels, as well as in the Croatian legal system, in order to see the modus operandi of the unauthorized use of personal data and its incidence at the national and local levels (in the City of Zagreb), by presenting and analyzing the data of the National Bureau of Statistics (DZS) as well as those obtained from the research conducted at the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb. Hence, the normative-descriptive method, as well as the statistical method of quantitative and qualitative data analysis were used.
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Hrčak ID:
310072
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Publication date:
24.11.2023.
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