The Hungarian Government submitted a bill to the Hungarian
Parliament in February 2019. The goal of the new legislation is to
amend more than 80 acts in order to comply with the European
Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to
experts, these amendments could bring an easier and more uniform
application of the data protection laws.
Although the majority of these amendments contain solely
technical provisions, there are also some substantive changes. For
example, the Hungarian Labour Code will be supplemented by
provisions governing the processing of employee data. It contains
arrangements for the security of the processing of biometric data
and personal data processed in criminal matters, as well as new
rules concerning the monitoring of workers. In this respect, the
legislation would ban the private use of computing equipment
provided by the employer and would also grant greater monitoring
rights to the employer.
