An approach to the Organic Law on Data Protection for companies
Abstract
Data protection is a relatively recent phenomenom in the Spanish legal system. The first regulation through the LOTARD was followed, due to adaptation to European legal system, by the current Ley Orgánica 15/1999, September, the 13th, of Personal Type Data Protection and its regulation and development. This law, whose regulation is especially focused on the handling of automatized files, has a considerable technical difficulties. Its concepts, rights, sphere of application, and even the penalizing scope deserve a simplifying analysis. This is the aim of this article, which will also take into account the security measures established by RD 1720/2007, December, 21th, so as to reach a more comprehensive insight into the current Spanish Data Protection System.
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