The Hungarian Academy of Sciences held an global technological conference on the right to privacy in the digital age. Researchers from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia took part in the legal debate on Central Europe. The conference was opened on 1 December 2022 by the manager of the Institute of Justice Prof. Marcin Wielec.
The manager of the IWS presented a investigation group dealing with the right to privacy (Right to Privacy), which aims at a comparative law analysis taking into account the usage of modern technologies. prof. Marcin Wielec said that a comparative monograph consisting of 9 chapters on the right to privacy in individual countries of Central Europe entitled "The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age. The investigation group prepared 9 technological articles that await publication, organised 2 global technological conferences and held 18 dissemination events.
The manager besides presented the composition of the professorship group: Prof. Marcin Wielec (director – Poland); Prof. András Koltay (Hungary), Prof. Dusan Popovic (Serbia), Prof. David Sehnálek (Czech Republic), Prof. Qatarína Šmigová (Slovakia), Prof. Marta Dragičević Prtenjača (Croatia), Prof. Vanja-Ivan Savić (Croatia), Prof. Matija Damjan (Slovenia), Dr. Bartłomiej Oręziak (Poland).
Prof. Paweł Sobczyk besides spoke on behalf of the Institute of Justice. He thanked the organizers of the IWS conference in 2022 and the creative work of the squad established as part of the Central European Professors Network. He noted that the concepts developed in 1890 in "Harvard Law Reviv" by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis were not out of date. – On the contrary, due to the fact that the lectures proposed by speakers confirm that the right to privacy is constantly developing by obliging legislators to defend its subsequent aspects," said Prof. Sobczyk.
The organizers (University of Mishkolc – Central and European Academy) of the conference besides planned a presentation of the global monograph "The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age", developed by a squad of distinguished scientists under the direction of Prof. Marcin Wielec. The book will shortly be published by Central European Academic Publishing in collaboration with the Hungarian Institute of Comparative Law Ferenc Mádel.
According to Prof. Paweł Sobczyk, 2 dominant approaches on the right to privacy are noted in investigation articles originating in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. According to the first, there is simply a request to increase the scope and forms of the level of privacy protection. According to the second approach, there are many restrictions on privacy, which are justified by the request for state institutions to defend values specified as state security, public order, public wellness protection.
During the first panel of the conference, Prof. Marcin Wielec (director of the IWS), gave a paper on contemporary legal dilemmas entitled ‘The Dilemma of a affirmative Invention Regarding the Foundations of the Right to Privacy’. During his speech, the manager raised issues about the unequal structure of the right to privacy and thus its diversity in the protection and exploitation of private and public law.
Dr. Bartłomiej Oręziak (Coordinator of the Centre for strategical Analysis of IWS) presented a study on the right to privacy in the light of the constitutional case law of the Polish Republic entitled "Range of the Right to Privacy in the light of selected Polish Constitutional Court Cases". The paper discusses 3 selected rulings of the Polish Constitutional Court (of 12 December 2005 by mention to Act K 32/04; of 5 March 2013 by mention to Act U 2/11; of 25 November 2021 by mention to Act Kp 2/19).
The Hungarian conference on privacy rights in the digital age entitled "The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age – in specificterms" was organised as part of the investigation task of the Central European Professors Network 2022. The task is implemented with the active participation of 7 countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia). The main issues of the task include: parental responsibility, environmental protection, protection of national symbols and the right to privacy.
