Abstract:
The area of research of my thesis is the legislation on personal data protection.
Technology has advanced rapidly over the last few decades and now legislator must attempt with their work to keep up the ever increasing pace of change.
With new technologies it is now incredibly easy to store enormous amount of informations and data. However, one of the main problems is that not always those data are kept at safe by the controller or processor. Therefore, it is particularly important to have a worldwide shared legislation about personal data protection: for example, an high level of protection must be required when personal data are stored.
Most of the focus of my thesis will be on European legislation because Europe has been the major promoter of personal data protection for a long time. Others, like the US, have chosen to follow a path that gives priority to security over privacy.
This thesis aims to analyse the greatest improvements over the last few years on the field of personal data protection, and also to point out some controversy on this theme.
