Abstract:

Living in a globalised world and given the mobility of people the movement of one’s data is also a constant, there are fewer and fewer barrier or mechanisms that we can make use of in maintaining a singular person’s privacy and to safeguard their private life.

In this way, this essay briefly addresses a set of practical questions related to the need for Higher Education Institutions and community to adapt to the natural – and continuously increasing - correlation between the areas of law and technology.

The General Regulation on Data Protection introduces the single digital market. As with every legal novelty, new issues, questions and problems arise requiring in-depth analysis of several matters that the legal practitioners are now facing. The lack of response and the inadaptability of the GDPR to any issues that it covers creates a massive amount of problems that have to be dealt with. New approaches and reactions to the oncoming questions are necessary.

The protection of personal information, as a guarantee of the citizens' fundamental rights and the ability to come around the various obstacles that compromise this protection, along with a long tradition of constitutional consecration of the right to protection of personal data, so obliges. However, it was the GDPR that aroused the dogmatic interest for an actual training gap, which we have long considered to be visible in the basic training of future lawyers, and that should be addressed throughout the 1st cycle of studies in Law.

Thus, the multidisciplinary nature of personal data protection screams for a intervention at the level of the training of jurists that will, in the future, be capable of mastering different areas of knowledge, in order to understand the functioning of various information systems, comprehending in an agile manner the language that new technologies introduced into the society and, most of all in relation to the legal sciences.

Keywords:

GDPR, EU, Data Protection, Law, Higher Education.