Hungary’s Former DPA Head Describes Amendments to New Data Protection Law as ‘Sham’

BUDAPEST—The Hungarian Parliament April 2 passed an amendment to the Law on Autonomy over Information and the Freedom of Information (Information Act)—which took effect Jan. 1—to meet European Union demands to shore up the independence of the National Data Protection and Freedom of Information Authority, but the former head of the authority believes it is a sham.

András Jóri, former head of the now defunct Office of Data Protection Ombudsman, told BNA in an April 6 phone interview that this latest measure is not so much an effort by the government to grant more independence to a body that never had any but an attempt to cloak an unlawfully established organization with legitimacy. …

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