Source: Politika

Half a year after, we have passed the Law on Personal Data Protection, with several years of tardiness, and still there is not a man available to be working on personal data protection surveillance.

One of the more prominent phenomena of the contemporary world is that the data of another person are used more and more often in order to gain certain advantage or to cause damage. 

The Federal Trade Committee in the USA (FTC), which has been publishing reports on customer complaints on this enormous market every year for six, seven years in succession, quotes ‘'identity theft'' as the most frequent cause of financial fraud complaints. The third of more hundred thousands of reported frauds relates to identity theft, and the financial effects of such theft are measured with the fantastic several tens of billions of dollars. This is about ravaging banking accounts, i.e. shopping and incurring debts on other peoples' accounts.

Source: "Blic"

Huge Importance of Law on Personal Data Protection

Personal data processing, use and collecting will be possible in the future only with citizens' consent

Several dozens of public authorities are violating the Law on Personal Data Protection. While officials deny information on the amount of their monthly salaries, at the same time they have illegally concluded agreements with credit bureaus of banks under which they submit data on clients' outstanding debt and on unpaid water and electricity bills. This is just one of the examples of violation of the Law on Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, faced.

Source: "Blic"

It is unacceptable that honest people who come into conflict with formal or informal rules for keeping of various secrets in our country because of their willingness to stand up and protect public interest often face very ugly things. They bear responsibility, they become fired.

Source: "Danas"

Regional meeting on personal data protection has been held in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce

Belgrade - Citizens are still not sufficiently informed with the fact that personal data can be published only with their consent, but so are the state bodies, regarding the fact that they can not publish those data at any time, has been stressed during yesterday's regional meeting „Personal Data Protection" in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce.

As Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection stated speaking about personal data protection, Serbia seriously lags behind the European standards, but also behind its surroundings.

Source: Blic

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Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information

I quess it was because it has happened simultaneously with the ''earthquake'' caused by the revealing the secret of M.Kovacevic case, public attention let pass an event which really deserved it. NN forwarded to a great number of the media several dosens of ''personal papers'' of judges of Trade Court in Belgrade

Source: Politika

A ruling in the case Társaság a Szabadságjogokér versus Hungary should remind responsible persons that this reality has to change in our country as well.

Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information

Társaság a Szabadságjogokért is a name of a Hungarian association of citizens - the Hungarian Civil Liberties Association - which won a lawsuit against Hungary before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg for denial of the right of free access to information of public importance. That result is certainly one of the largest achievements in the fight for affirmation of the right of free access to information so far. Indeed, the European Court of Human Rights has explicitly upheld for the first time that the right of free access to information is protected under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.