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The role of the right of access to personal data within data protection law
Semanová, Simona ; Exner, Jan (advisor) ; Kunertová, Tereza (referee)
Nowadays, when the world is full of technological transformations and digitalisation, surveillance, and a global flow of personal data, it is necessary to have the possibility of adequate protection of personal data. Such protection is more effective when data subjects are aware of the rights granted to them under data protection law and thus are able to effectively exercise them. In order to do so, they have to be informed of certain aspects of their personal data processing that is carried out by a particular controller. The right to be informed and the right of access to personal data were designed to ensure that data subjects have that necessary information. This thesis focuses on the right of access to personal data and raises the question about the extent to which this right determines the effectiveness of the protection of personal data. In order to answer this question, the author firstly deals with the right to data protection in general to explain its basic concepts, which is necessary to grasp the aim of this thesis. This is followed by discussing the general aspects of data subject rights, including the determination of principles that need to be adhered to under data protection law. Subsequently, the right to be informed, strongly correlated with the right of access to personal data,...
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