The Continuous and Widespread Violation of GDPR In the Personal Communications of European Citizens, Disregarding Their Private Lives
Abstract
Christos P. Beretas
In recent years the field of information technology and communication has made enormous progress, one characteristic progress is the ease of systems interconnection of different technologies with other systems that are able to operate automat- ically and perform automated processes, this has been greatly helped by the technological evolution data compression, data conversion into other formats which aimed to reduce the volume of data and lower prices on storage media and create new storage media. Today, the whole life of a person, that is, all his/her activities can be stored on a CD at an extremely low cost, imagine the usual activities of a person from the moment he/her is born until dies only fit on a CD. The European Union, realizing the increasing technological progress, implemented various laws for the protection of personal data and human freedom, so after several laws, it ended up creating the GDPR which is automatically applied to all member states of the European Union as well as in third countries where personal data iof European citizens are processed. The GDPR is opt-in / opt-out in relation to other personal data protection laws such as for example the CCPA which applies in California and is only opt-out, this is something very important and reinforces the effectiveness of the GDPR as it limits the use of personal data, but unfortunately there is not always European citizens consent.