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Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: Data protection authorities (DPAs) are independent public authorities supervising the application of the data protection law. There is one DPA in each European Union (EU) Member State. Workload and procedures used by European DPAs were analyzed via a cross-sectional study. RESULTS: DPAs f...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10045515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36973747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06308-z |
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author | Puljak, Livia Mladinić, Anamarija Koporc, Zvonimir |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Data protection authorities (DPAs) are independent public authorities supervising the application of the data protection law. There is one DPA in each European Union (EU) Member State. Workload and procedures used by European DPAs were analyzed via a cross-sectional study. RESULTS: DPAs from 13 countries participated: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, and Slovakia. Responding to opinion/guidance requests in DPAs was highly heterogeneous. Procedure types used by DPAs varied, from telephone-based advisory service in Norway to a formal legal opinion in Austria. The deadline for responding to the requests varied considerably in DPAs. The number of opinion/guidance requests sent by data controllers and processors, and the number of opinion/guidance requests and complaints sent by data subjects, increased from 2015 to 2018 when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into full effect; it decreased in 2019. Few DPAs organized education about data protection for the research community. In conclusion, the procedures and workload of DPAs in the EU were highly variable. It is important to study these aspects further, as they may assist in tailoring future data protection policies and procedures at the EU level. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06308-z. |
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spelling | pubmed-100455152023-03-29 Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study Puljak, Livia Mladinić, Anamarija Koporc, Zvonimir BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Data protection authorities (DPAs) are independent public authorities supervising the application of the data protection law. There is one DPA in each European Union (EU) Member State. Workload and procedures used by European DPAs were analyzed via a cross-sectional study. RESULTS: DPAs from 13 countries participated: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Norway, Romania, and Slovakia. Responding to opinion/guidance requests in DPAs was highly heterogeneous. Procedure types used by DPAs varied, from telephone-based advisory service in Norway to a formal legal opinion in Austria. The deadline for responding to the requests varied considerably in DPAs. The number of opinion/guidance requests sent by data controllers and processors, and the number of opinion/guidance requests and complaints sent by data subjects, increased from 2015 to 2018 when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into full effect; it decreased in 2019. Few DPAs organized education about data protection for the research community. In conclusion, the procedures and workload of DPAs in the EU were highly variable. It is important to study these aspects further, as they may assist in tailoring future data protection policies and procedures at the EU level. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06308-z. BioMed Central 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10045515/ /pubmed/36973747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06308-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Puljak, Livia Mladinić, Anamarija Koporc, Zvonimir Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title | Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Workload and procedures used by European data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | workload and procedures used by european data protection authorities related to personal data protection: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10045515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36973747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06308-z |
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