ADMINISTRATIVE LEGAL MECHANISMS FOR DATA PROTECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF E-GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATIVE LEGAL MECHANISMS FOR DATA PROTECTION IN THE CONTEXT OF E-GOVERNMENT

Summary/Abstract: Information and communication technologies have become an important public administration resource over the last few decades. Administrativ eactivities in modern states are inconceivable without them. The concept ofe-government aims at simplifying administrative procedures, facilitating theexercise of citizens’ rights, as well as ensuring more efficient administration.However, the use of information and communication technologies in publicadministration not only creates conditions for the promotion of citizens’ rights,but also poses certain risks, especially with regard to citizens’ privacy and protectionof their personal data. The protection of personal data is subject to bothinternational legal acts and positive legal regulations. Having in mind positivelegal regulations, the protection of personal data is primarily done through administrativelegal mechanisms, in the form of control mechanisms conducted byspecific regulatory bodies in administrative proceedings and judicial review inadministrative dispute. According to the newest legal regulation of data protectionin the European Union (General Data Protection Regulation) there is anotherform of protection of personal data, which is accomplished by the appointmentof data protection officers in various administrative bodies. The subject of thisresearch will be to analyze the effectiveness of these mechanisms in the contextof e-government. The basic methodological direction of the research will be acomparative analysis of regulations and practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina,the European Union and selected European countries.

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