Slovakia: Privacy Protection

On 15 December 2022, the Slovenian Parliament finally adopted the Data Protection Act (Zakon o varstvu osebnih podatkov, ZVOP-2, "ZVOP-2"), a national law implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). The act had been several years in the making, with the earliest draft released for public consultation back in 2017.

The Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic has now dealt with the issue of employers keeping access to a former employee's email account, twice.

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