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Ochrana údajov, súkromie a nové technológie

<p>More of our everyday lives are online &mdash; both at work and home. Meanwhile, terror attacks intensify calls for more surveillance. Concerns grow over the safety of our privacy and personal data.</p>
<p>FRA helps lawmakers and practitioners protect your rights in a connected world.</p>

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Highlights

Informačné materiály
Handbook / Guide / Manual
Unlawful profiling
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Data protection
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Racial and ethnic origin
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Security
5
December
2018
Last versions available are EL and NL
11 March 2021

Preventing unlawful profiling today and in the future: a guide

This guide explains what profiling is, the legal frameworks that regulate it, and why conducting profiling lawfully is both necessary to comply with fundamental rights and crucial for effective policing and border management. The guide also provides practical guidance on how to avoid unlawful profiling in police and border management operations.
Report / Paper / Summary
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Support for human rights systems and defenders
26
October
2018

Fundamental Rights Forum 2018 - Chair's Statement

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights’ 2018 Fundamental Rights Forum
brought together more than 700 human rights champions at a time of
widening social divisions and increasingly polarised politics across
Europe.
In brief / Factsheet
Unlawful profiling
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Racial and ethnic origin
20
September
2018

In Brief - Big data, algorithms and discrimination

With enormous volumes of data generated every day, more and more decisions are based on data analysis and algorithms. This can bring welcome benefits, such as consistency and objectivity, but algorithms also entail great risks. A FRA focus paper looks at how the use of automation in decision making can result in, or exacerbate, discrimination.
Opinion
Borders and information systems
Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
14
September
2018

Fundamental rights implications of storing biometric data in identity documents and residence cards

This Opinion by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aims to inform the European Parliament’s position concerning the legislative proposal for a Regulation on strengthening the security of identity cards of European Union (EU) citizens and of residence documents issued to EU citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement. It focuses on the processing of biometric data and complements the opinion published by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
Report / Paper / Summary
Borders and information systems
Irregular migration, return and immigration detention
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Children, youth and older people
12
September
2018

How the Eurosur Regulation affects fundamental rights

In November 2017, the European Commission requested FRA’s support in evaluating the impact on fundamental rights of the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) Regulation. Further to this request, FRA reviewed the work of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and analysed cooperation agreements concluded by EU Member States with third countries which are relevant for the exchange of information for the purposes of Eurosur. This report presents the main findings of such review.
Opinion
Borders and information systems
Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
10
September
2018

The revised Visa Information System and its fundamental rights implications

This Opinion aims to
inform the European Parliament’s position on the legislative proposal amending the
Visa Information System, the Visa Code and other related provisions of EU law. The
European Commission presented the proposal on 16 May 2018 and EU legislators are
currently discussing it.
Fundamental Rights Report
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Children, youth and older people
People with disabilities
Hate crime
Roma
Sex, sexual orientation and gender
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
6
June
2018

Fundamental Rights Report 2018

The year 2017 brought both progress and setbacks in terms of rights protection. The European Pillar of Social Rights marked an important move towards a more ‘social Europe’. But, as experiences with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights underscore, agreement on a text is merely a first step. Even in its eighth year as the EU's binding bill of rights, the Charter's potential was not fully exploited, highlighting the need to more actively promote its use.
Fundamental Rights Report
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Justice, victims’ rights and judicial cooperation
Support for human rights systems and defenders
6
June
2018

Fundamental Rights Report 2018 FRA opinions

The year 2017 brought both progress and setbacks in terms of fundamental rights protection. FRA’s Fundamental Rights Report 2018 reviews major developments in the field, identifying both achievements and remaining areas of concern.
Report / Paper / Summary
Artificial intelligence and big data
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Unlawful profiling
Equality, non-discrimination and racism
Racial and ethnic origin
30
May
2018

#BigData: Discrimination in data-supported decision making

We live in a world of big data, where technological developments in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence have changed the way we live. Decisions and processes concerning everyday life are increasingly automated, based on data. This affects fundamental rights in various ways. This focus paper specifically deals with discrimination, a fundamental rights area particularly affected by technological developments.
Handbook / Guide / Manual
Ochrana údajov, súkromie a nové technológie
Ochrana osobných údajov
25
May
2018
New language version - Estonian
04 November 2020

Príručka o európskych právnych predpisoch v oblasti ochrany údajov – vydanie 2018

Rýchly rozvoj informačných technológií ešte viac zvýšil potrebu prísnej ochrany osobných údajov, pričom toto
právo zaručujú ako nástroje Európskej únie (EÚ), tak aj Rady Európy. Zabezpečenie tohto dôležitého práva
so sebou prináša nové a významné výzvy, keďže technologickým pokrokom sa rozširujú hranice možností
v oblastiach, ako je sledovanie, odpočúvanie komunikácie a uchovávanie údajov. Cieľom tejto príručky je
oboznámiť príslušníkov právnického povolania, ktorí sa nešpecializujú na ochranu údajov, s touto vznikajúcou
oblasťou práva.
Report / Paper / Summary
Bezpečnosť
Ochrana údajov, súkromie a nové technológie
Ochrana osobných údajov
Spravodlivosť, práva obetí a justičná spolupráca
9
May
2018

Sledovanie spravodajskými službami: záruky a prostriedky nápravy v oblasti základných práv v Európskej únii – Zväzok II - Zhrnutie

Terorizmus, kybernetické útoky a sofistikované cezhraničné zločinecké siete predstavujú rastúcu hrozbu. Preto sa práca spravodajských služieb stáva čoraz viac naliehavejšou a komplexnejšou, pričom sa posilňuje jej medzinárodný charakter. Môže dôrazne zasahovať do základných práv, najmä na ochranu súkromia a údajov. Kým neustály technologický pokrok potenciálne zhoršuje hrozbu takéhoto zásahu, účinný dohľad a prostriedky nápravy môžu obmedziť potenciál zneužitia.
Video
Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Video blog by Michael O'Flaherty: data protection

This video blog by FRA Director Michael O'Flaherty is released periodically and will address burning fundamental rights themes.
Opinion
Borders and information systems
Asylum, migration and borders
Borders and information systems
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
19
April
2018

Interoperability and fundamental rights implications

This Opinion by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) aims to inform the European Parliament position concerning legislative proposals on interoperability between EU information technology systems (IT systems) presented on 12 December 2017 and currently discussed by the EU legislators.
AdobeStock / HQQuality
Report / Paper / Summary
Borders and information systems
Asylum, migration and borders
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
Borders and information systems
Security
28
March
2018

Under watchful eyes – biometrics, EU IT-systems and fundamental rights

This report outlines the fundamental rights implications of collecting, storing and using
biometric and other data in EU IT systems in the area of asylum and migration.
Video
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

European Parliament discusses FRA surveillance report findings

Mario Oetheimer presented FRA’s second surveillance report to the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee on 21 November in Brussels.
Video
Data protection
Security
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Press Briefing: Mass surveillance - rights vs security?

This is the recording of the online press briefing about mass surveillance as presented by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on 16 October 2017.
Page
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Quotes on surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU

This second volume, ‘Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU’, explores legal changes since the first volume in 2015 and how these laws are applied in practice. It is based on data from all EU Member States on the legal framework governing surveillance and complemented by field research in seven Member States: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. This involved more than 70 interviews with a range of stakeholders related to surveillance. These included overseers and controllers from the executive, indedepent expert bodies, parliamentary committees, the judiciary and actors from the civil society. These quotes are contained in the report. Below are a selection of some of them:
Page
Data protection, privacy and new technologies

Surveillance by intelligence services: Findings Q&A

Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
23
October
2017

Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU - Volume II: field perspectives and legal update

This report is FRA’s second publication addressing a European Parliament request for in-depth research on the impact of surveillance on fundamental rights. It updates FRA’s 2015 legal analysis on the topic, and supplements that analysis with field-based insights gained from extensive interviews with diverse experts in intelligence and related fields, including its oversight.
Report / Paper / Summary
Data protection
Data protection, privacy and new technologies
13
July
2017

Data retention across the EU

In 2006 the EU issued its Data Retention Directive. According to the Directive, EU Member States had to store electronic telecommunications data for at least six months and at most 24 months for investigating, detecting and prosecuting serious crime. In 2016, with an EU legal framework on data retention still lacking, the CJEU further clarified what safeguards are required for data retention to be lawful.This paper looks at amendments to national data retention laws in 2016 after the Digital Rights Ireland judgment.