The new European general data protection regulation, present and future

Abstract

The right to the protection of personal data of natural persons has been dealt with for several years now, in fact, we can go back to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, which already mentioned data protection, however, it was not until 1981 when Europe had the first legislative precedent on such protection. Subsequently, a Directive was enacted in 1995. However, this issue had not been taken seriously by the countries of the European Union, although the Directive was transposed in the Member States. After a few years, as a result of the progress of society and new technologies, it became necessary to regulate it, through a mechanism of mandatory and direct compliance for all, thus, the European General Data Protection Regulation was born, whose mandatory and direct compliance is required since May 25, 2018. At present, the Member States should have been fully adapted, but this has not been the case, there are still issues to be resolved, obliged to adapt and rules to be legislated.