Amendments to the Personal Data Law will come into force in
March 2022.
In this review, we would like to focus on several notable
changes to the Personal Data Law. There are additional amendments
that are not covered in this newsletter.
Re-collection and processing of personal data
One of the significant changes concern a repeated collection and
processing of personal data that is available on public sources.
The new amendment now permit the repeated collection and processing
of such data provided that data has been originally distributed
with the consent of a data subject.
This change is in line with the current trend of accessing
information for the purpose of developing information services. At
the same time, the new rule is a departure from the principle of
informed use of personal data. Additionally, this has a potential
to interfere with the rights of database owners who tend to
allocate significant amount of resources for the collection of
data.
