A nemzetbiztonsági ellenőrzés új szabályairól

Abstract

The object of examination in Dr. Attila Péterfalvi’s study is law LXXII of 2013, relating to the necessary modification of new laws regarding the regulations pertaining to the monitoring of national security. The author is the chairman of the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and former commissioner of data protection, and based on this experience is a source of authentic information concerning this topic. The data handling of national security agencies has always been a topic of great sensitivity in terms of data protection and the in relation to state versus citizen. The author reviews the procedure for law enactment and the soon to be introduced new monitoring regulations, in addition to discussing and critiquing the concept of “continuous surveillance”. It speaks to the actuality of the study that the Constitutional Court, in its decision 19/2013 (VII.19), suspended some of the parts of the examined law, that came into effect August 1st 2013, as a result of a submission seeking an examination of its constitutionality, by the commissioner for fundamental rights.