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Dilemmas with regard to implementation of the law on data confidentiality
Alen Rajko
; head of the Office for Administrative Science, Town of Opatija, Croatia
Abstract
Design of the system of information legislation is described. The new Law on Data Confidentiality is the fourth part of this system, along with the Law on the Access to Public Sector Information, Law on Personal Data Protection, and Media Act. Basic novelties in the Law are stressed, such as the issue of transitional regulation about levels of confidentiality. There are a few dilemmas with regard to implementation of the new Law. Some of them are connected with
criminal law, and some with the issue of access to public sector information. An interesting procedural problem is connected with the test of proportionality. The author warns about the gaps in legal regulation, lack of control capacity, possibilities of misusing legal regulation on data confidentiality, and the necessity of terminological and other clarifications in legal regulation.
Keywords
data confidentiality – Croatia; information legislation; levels of confidentiality; proportionality; access to public sector information
Hrčak ID:
135342
URI
Publication date:
7.9.2007.
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