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Ochrona danych osobowych przez przedsiębiorcę
Protection of personal data by an entrepreneur

Author(s): Emilia Kuczma
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: personal data; entrepreneur; protection of entrepreneur’s personal data; securing of personal data; documentation of personal data; data administrator; protection of personal data; Act on personal data protection; Inspector General for Personal Data Prote

Summary/Abstract: The present article is discussing the issues of the protection of personal data by an entrepreneur and shows the most popular areas of the data protection from an entrepreneur point of view. The first part explains the most important issues concerning the definition and legal duties of the administrator of personal details, whom an entrepreneur is in the processing aspect of personal details. Next the most frequent, and at the same time the most problematic issues of personal details processing appearing at an entrepreneur are described, such as: employee data and data about candidates for work, data about other entrepreneurs, details about customers, data transfer abroad, documentation preparing and implementing internal procedures of the protection of personal data in the company and inspections of entrepreneurs conducted by inspectors of the IGPDP Office. Developing and describing of presented problems shows that the issues of the protection of personal data are a crucial element in the legal aspect of functioning for an entrepreneur. Paying attention to statutory entitlements, as well as satisfying duties in legal processing personal details are the responsibility of an entrepreneur, who on the legal validity of the Data Protection Act is not exempted from its observing.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 372
  • Page Range: 210-224
  • Page Count: 15