GENERAL AND LABOR LAW ASPECTS OF THE GDPR

Abstract

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (henceforward: Regulation or GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation — based on the abbreviation which was commonly used) the new regulatory of the European Union on data protection entered into force on 25 May 2018. The GDPR unifies the data processing rules of the EU Member States with the supersedence of national legislation. The new regulation has generated a great interest in a society as a whole, which may be due to the fact that not only large companies are affected by regulation, but also all data processing organizations and, on the other hand the regulation may arise not only the interests of legal persons but individuals because they have greater insight and rights relation to the processing of their personal data. Thirdly, it is not negligible that any failure is being punished by a higher fine than
ever before. In the next few pages, we present the regulation of GDPR, furthermore what changes would occur in the Hungarian legal system in particular the labor law aspect.