Professional paper
PERSONAL DATA, SECRET DATA AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE PRESS TOWARDS INFORMATION
Alen Rajko
; Police department of Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
The author of the text analyses legal situations caused by relations among three questions: secrecy of data, protection of personal data and the right of the press to access to information. First, principal legal elements of the analysis (within the framework of the constitutional provisions and international agreements and laws) at the level of basic information are presented. Main characteristics o f a real situation are described by typical cases of “information draught” and manipulation of
personal data. Principal guidelines of the working version of the Draft Proposal of the Protection of Personal Data Act, relevant at the time of writing the text, are mentioned. In conclusion, measures for the solution of the conflict of legally protected interests connected with the three above-mentioned questions are proposed. In this connection, different legal significance of the questions under consideration
is taken into account: the right of the press to access to information and the right to protection of personal data are constitutional rights, while the protection of secrecy of data is not. General criteria for the test of prevalence between the mentioned constitutional rights are suggested as well.
Keywords
personal data; secret data; attitude towards information
Hrčak ID:
197848
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2000.
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