La agenda profesional del periodista ante la Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal

Abstract

The Organic Personal Data Protection Law of 1999 and its unfolding regulations, constitute such a restrictive and bureaucratized legislative framework, that it forbids many of the routines practiced in the journalistic profession; and it penalizes those routines with heavy fines, to the effect that this legislation prevents an agile, effective and standard practice of journalism, even outlawing conventional specializations within the profession. The article examines how this Act affects the basic tool of every journalist’s notebook/database; and it concludes that notebooks of professional journalists violate the regulations of such legislative framework, while deserving multiple sanctions. An in-depth series of discussions on this state of affairs will be necessary and required.