Source: Blic
If one should judge by the announcements, priority in the future activities of our Parliament shall be passing of the law bringing us closer to so-called White Schengen List. That besides else means that we could soon also have the right law on personal data protection. And it is really high time for that. In the world, research of public opinion show that in the developed countries, even 80 percents of citizens sees the entitlement to privacy immediately after the entitlement to life and freedom, and in all, even poor countries, where citizens face much more existential problems, privacy ranks high on the ladder of social values. It is normal, because that is an expression of old, eternal and big man's need to be „left alone“.New age, modern problems and modern technologies have also brought about evolution of the concept on entitlement to privacy. From elementary right to be „left alone“ one came to a set of rights pertaining to personal data and their availability. Problems of legal protection do not deal any more just with privacy, but also with numerous other moments. Big lateness in regulating those issues speaks that we're not completely aware of almost unforeseen possibilities of (abuse) use of personal data.
It is really important for us to have that law, not as a letter on a paper, but as a functioning enactment. Coming closer to White Schengen is by itself a good reason for that, but even without that, there are more than sufficient reasons.
Rodoljub Sabic, Commissioner for Information
