@article{Pedic_2017, title={INTERCONNECTIVITY AND DIFFERENCES OF THE (INFORMATION) PRIVACY RIGHT AND PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION RIGHT N THE EUROPEAN UNION}, volume={30}, url={https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/recl/article/view/4264}, DOI={10.31743/recl.4264}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 111.024px; top: 351.554px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.934273);">Right to (information) privacy and right to personal data protection have </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 371.154px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.978541);">many common contact points. However, the very act of developing data protec</span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 390.754px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.935338);">tion, as a younger right into the sui generis right shows that these two rights are not </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 410.354px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.958754);">the same and that there are differences between them, huge enough to make them </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 429.954px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.965875);">separate legal rights. The main trigger for noticing their different nature, purpose </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 449.554px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.954029);">and background and for development of the data protection into the separate right </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 469.154px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.970005);">was the revolution in the information technology solutions. This IT progress, for </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 488.754px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.892691);">the first time, enabled massive and relatively cheap operations with the personal </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 508.354px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.908847);">data and brought not only concern about the security of the personal data, but </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 527.954px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.933258);">also unbelievable business possibilities. It was the turning point for the codification </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 547.554px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.966174);">of the data protection right which started from 1970ies, aiming to create separate </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 567.154px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.959626);">rules and legislation which will understand the importance of not only of protect</span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 586.754px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.931818);">ing personal data but of their regulated and lawful usage. Despite all what was said, </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 606.354px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.895936);">there is still certain confusion regarding these two rights, mainly because in the </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 625.954px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.971975);">initial phase of the massive usage of the new IT solutions, when the data protec</span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 645.554px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.94475);">tion legislation still wasn’t developed, information privacy right served as the only </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 665.154px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.945967);">legal protection of the data protection right and the relationship between these two </span><span style="left: 82.6737px; top: 684.754px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.939968);">rights is complex even today and deserves to be further researched</span></p>}, number={3}, journal={Review of European and Comparative Law}, author={Pedic, Zana}, year={2017}, month={Sep.}, pages={125–135} }