Personal Data Protection

"Data, for which we don't know how it will serve us before we even collect it, is data that we shouldn't process," Ruzic told BIRN. "Data that we have collected in order to do some analysis, and we do not do that, or we do not make decisions on the basis of those analyses, is data that we should delete, because it is obvious that we do not need it."

Serbia's interior ministry planned to buy Swedish-made facial recognition software last year and still might despite deep concern over the legality of such technology under the country's current legislation, BIRN can report.