Legal Principles Of Personal Data Processing GDPR Vs. Kazakhstan's DPL, Part II

GDPR vs. Kazakhstan's DPL, Part II

Having analysed the background behind the rapid personal data regulation development over the last decade, objectives that the European and Kazakhstani legislation pursues by such development, as well as the legal notion of personal data as such, the next step of paramount importance to be taken to understand personal data's legal treatment is the review of guiding principles.

"Knowledge of some principles easily compensates for the lack of knowledge of some facts"¹.In this regard, this part focuses on differences and similarities of principles laid down in the GDPR and KZ DPL with more stress put toward the observance of constitutional rights and freedoms of individuals and legality of processing with the introduction of the consent doctrine that will be discussed in more details in the next part.