RETHINKING THE PRIVILEGE AGAINST SELF-INCRIMINATION

The General Regulation on personal data protection, adopted on 27 April 2016, is the act by wich the reform on data protection in the European Union has been completeed. The processing of personal data is governed by a set of principles, the first of the principles regulated by the GDPR is the principle of lawfulness, fairness and transparency in processing of personal data. In accordance with this principle, personal data can be processed only on the basis of one of the 6 elements provided by the GDPR, the controllers must act in accordance with the will of the personal data subject, who must be informed of the way in which his or her data is processed.