Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Data Subjects between Balance, Proportionality and Evolution during the Pandemic COVID – 19

Victoria-Delia Bunceanu

Academic Journal of Law and Governance, 2022, vol. 10, issue 1-2, 177-193

Abstract: With the COVID-19 pandemic, Romania, like other EU Member States, had to take a number of measures to assure the distance between the human subjects. It was intended to prioritize work and life in virtual reality, the use of new technologies for learning or for performing work tasks. Electronic communication between employee – employer – citizens was encouraged. Thus education, health, and commercial activities all moved online for long periods of time. The respect for the fundamental right to life and the right to privacy in this context has been a cause of “contesting Europe on the periphery†during the pandemic period and that because any action on the internet leaves digital traces and sometimes because of the improper digital infrastructure. The data subjects, as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), real or false personalities, in the online environment, do not have control over the fact that, through simple activity on the internet, they become the subject of profiling but also of possible cyberattacks. The European Commission notes the increased frequency of large-scale attacks against information systems and the trend toward the use of information and communication technologies for political, economic and military supremacy. Cyberattacks are without borders. Human rights should remain without borders. Regarding the respect for the fundamental human rights and freedoms during the COVID – 19 pandemic in Romania and at Union level, history is still being written. Borders? Proportionality? Evolution? Balance? The future is under construction.

Date: 2022
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