The roundtable table organized by the Albanian Helsinki Committee focused on:
Analysing from the political point of view the shortcomings of the domestic legal framework, which create the premises for the violation of the rights of data subjects and the need for its improvement.
Analysing institutional approaches as far as punishment is concerned, with a focus on the administrative and criminal investigation of massive and unprecedented leaks of citizens’ personal data during 2021.
The protection of personal data is essential in order to guarantee people’s right to privacy. In the digital context this protection is particularly important as individuals are significantly more exposed than in the physical dimension, as consumers or users who benefit from goods and services.
Also, the use of information technology or artificial intelligence in large-scale data processing dictates the need to improve the standard of personal data protection. For this reason, it is necessary to create a safe environment for the subjects of personal data that at the same time promotes the circulation of this data as a basis for the data economy.
The publication of three databases in “Excel” format, with massive personal and sensitive data of citizens, rightfully worried and shocked the general public about the security of personal and sensitive data, about their responsibilities, how it was managed to be taken , were processed, administered and distributed without their prior approval or authorization. Worryingly, an undetermined number of people have had and may continue to have access to them because of their distribution.