Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 67 No. 1, 2024.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.36506/av.67.3
Personal Data Protection, Accessibility of Archival Records and History: “Will the Past Have a Name and Surname?”
Slobodanka Cvetković
; Historical Archive Požarevac
Abstract
The more personal data we leave behind, particularly while online, the greater the (justified) fear of their misuse. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new European Union regulation which strives to reconcile the seemingly opposing and irreconcilable interests, so that the “data economy” does not suffer losses and that individual privacy is protected. Through the EU legislation, the legislation of both the EU neighbouring member states and non-member states (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro), and the legislation of the Republic of Serbia, this paper attempts to highlight the problems in archives that arise as a result of the application of GDPR in relation to the users of archival records. It aims to point out the methodological problems in researching the past and future historiography that may result from data protection, the right to modify and delete data, and the right to be forgotten. There must be limits to the use of personal data, but limits pertaining to researching of what will become history must be minimal. These limits must be clear, precise and purposeful (only and exclusively concerning justifiable protection) and must not hold back science and insight about the past. Private individual interest must not be above the society’s interest to take notes, to keep and make accessible, to understand and learn about its past.
Keywords
archives; accessibility; use of archival records; archival records; privacy; personal data; classified data; history; historiography; past
Hrčak ID:
324796
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Publication date:
21.12.2024.
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