The purpose of this study is to discuss the guarantees of independence of the national supervisory authority in the light of the provisions of Regulation 2016/679 and national constitutional and statutory provisions. Ensuring the independence of the supervisory authority is recognized as one of the basic European standards for the protection of personal data. Independence manifests itself in the impossibility of issuing guidelines as to the manner of operation, limiting or eliminating the possibility of interfering with pending proceedings, limiting the impact on staffing. It is the independence of the authority that is intended to ensure the effectiveness and credibility of the supervision of compliance with the provisions on the protection of personal data of individuals.

Google and the Right to be Forgotten on the Internet

Development of new technologies and the emergence of the internet have made it necessary to discuss how to protect personal data online. In the European Union system, the right to personal data protection is regulated both in primary and secondary legislation. In 2016, the data protection regulation (RODO), which came into force in 2018 and it has become part of the national legal order in all European Union countries. The purpose of adopting this document was to strengthen and harmonise the protection of fundamental freedoms and right of individuals. The subject of particular interest became the right to be forgotten. The article discusses under what conditions a citizen has the right to have the data subject’s personal data deleted from Google’s search engine.

This paper will examine the scope of application of electoral law instruments ensuring the protection of personal data. At the end, the author formulates postulates to amend the law with regard to the examined issues.

The question of adequacy of data protection model in the United States is one of the most important in transatlantic business and politic relations. The fact that European Commission’s decisions recognizing the adequacy have been annulled twice put relations between EU and US in very difficult phase. In this article I aim to analyse whether basis guarantees for privacy protection in the United States in the shape of the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution are adequate in the meaning of data protection model in EU. By looking at the practice of interpreting of the Fourth Amendment and art. 8 of European Convention of Human Rights, in line with police directive and GDPR I try to answer the questions if the Fourth Amendment protection gives enough guarantees to ensure respect towards privacy and data protection rights of individuals.