A Partial Overview of the Data Subjects’ Control Over Their Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation

Abstract

The legal framework on data protection was updated recently by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data. According to this new regulation natural persons should have control of their own personal data. As such, the effective protection of personal data throughout the Union required the strengthening and setting out in detail of the rights of data subjects. In view of the novel legal framework, this article aims to explore some of the data subjects' main rights as to the control over the processing of their personal data.