Field goal of the Data Protection Act and its regulations (Part II) - The personal data

Second part of study on the field goal of the Data Protection Act and its implementing regulation

. As to what is meant by personal data, will be to the provisions of Article 3 of the Organic Law on Data Protection (Data Protection Act) that in the first paragraph specifies that personal data is "any information concerning identified or identifiable natural persons. " This definition seems to establish that personal data are not used effectively to identify a person should not be covered and regulated by this rule. At this point, one wonders whether an e-mail address (see Blog Miguel Angel Mata ), the address IP of a terminal (see Google's official blog ) or the internal registration number of students, workers or patients may be regarded as personal data. In these three cases, the AEPD thinks that they are as they relate to individuals to whom, through reasonable procedures, it could identify, on the other hand, companies, individuals and a substantial part of the doctrine argue that neither are personal data and should not be considered as such.

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