| Abstract [eng] |
The theme of this master paper is ‘Personal Data Protection in the Electronic Communications Sector‘. The major attention in the paper is granted to the regulation that is effective on the level of the EU. Therefore, the first part of this paper deals with the provisions of the Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with the regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The concept of ‘personal data’ is analyzed. As well as the requirements settled for the lawful personal data processing are provided. The second part of the paper deals with such spheres as the requirements settled for the processing of traffic data and location data. Thus, the provisions of the Directive 2002/58/EBof the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2002 concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and different notions, working documents of the Article 29 Working Party on the Protection of the Individuals are discussed and summarized. The third part of the paper deals with the requirements for processing of traffic and location data, as well. Therefore, the third part of this paper is granted to the analysis of the provisions of the Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the exception of the Art. 15 part 1 on the retention for such data. Besides this, the provisions of the Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of the 15 March 2006 on the retention of the data generated or processed in connection with the provisions of publicly available electronic communications services or of the public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC are being analyzed in details. Such provisions will have to be implemented into the Lithuanian laws no later than September 15 2009. Thus the major attention of this master paper is granted to quite new spheres of the electronic communications sector that still have not been widely describes within the legal literature. |
