EU Personal Data Protection Standards and Regulatory Framework

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the prospects and challenges that arise in the application of the current EU legislation in field of personal data protection. Legal historical method and method of legal forecasting used in work made it possible to analyze advantages of modern instruments of legal regulation. The advantages and disadvantages of the Regulation were analyzed. The analysis indicated a lack of legal certainty of the conceptual apparatus and procedural mechanism of the Regulation, different visions of legislator and representatives of the scientific community regarding the conclusions made by artificial intelligence systems using personal data.

Keywords:

• Legal regulation
• personal data
• confidentiality
• GDPR
• pseudonymization
• security

Disclosure statement

Authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.

Data availability statement

Data will be available on request.

Notes

1 ‘pseudonymisation’ means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person (GDPR, Article 4 (5)) (European Union External Action, 2019)