Information privacy

The Court of Justice of the European Union may impose a fine of around EUR 2.5 million on Greece for failing to transpose in its national law the EU 2016 data protection regulation within the specified period.

If you have made an enquiry and it shows that your personal data has been unlawfully disclosed, it is important for you to know that you do not need to take extraordinary action.

You do not need to change your identity documents.

Milan Marinovic, the candidate proposed by the Serbian parliament's Committee for Culture and Information, was chosen as Serbia's new Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection on Friday evening.

Most opposition MPs were not present for the vote.

The European Commission publishes new guidelines on the interaction of the free movement of non-personal data with EU data protection standards.

Turkey's Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) said on May 10 it had fined Facebook a total of 1.65 million lira (around $270,976.01) in April due to a data breach.

The Prosecutor General's Office posted on Saturday evening a message on its Facebook page explaining why personal data were removed from two press releases of the Judiciary Crime Investigation Section regarding the case in which former head of the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) Laura Codruta Kovesi was prosecuted.

Almost 60,000 personal data breaches have been reported to Europe's regulators since the EU adopted a landmark privacy law, according to figures published on Tuesday that campaigners said should spur people to think twice about what they share online.

Bulgaria's Head of State exercised his power and returned a provision of the Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Personal Data Protection Act for a new debate in Parliament with objections to the criteria set forth in § 26 for the processing of personal data for journalistic purposes and for the purposes of the academic or literary expression, the press office of the Head of State said on

Serbian citizens' personal data will thus be protected in the same way as in EU member states, the Ministry of Justice said on Monday, on the occasion of Data Privacy Day, Beta agency reported.

Amendments to Bulgaria's Data Protection Law, passed on Thursday without debate in parliament, limit freedom of expression and may result in fresh pressures on the media, the Association of Bulgarian Journalists, AEJ-Bulgaria, warned on 24 January.