A new act on national data assets ("National Data Assets Act") has been approved and published in Hungary and the new law will be in force from 27th of July, 2021. What do national data assets mean and why is the new act important in the data economy? National data assets mean data held by public…

At the beginning of June, the Hungarian DPA published a decision imposing an administrative fine of HUF 100 million (approx. EUR 290,000) under the GDPR. The fine was much higher than the data protection fines imposed in Hungary so far (the highest amount of fines previously imposed was HUF 30…

Data protection rules such as the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) apply to personal data. But what does personal data mean? According to the GDPR, ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable…