Personal data protection in electronic communication:: special reference to Act 25/2007 on data conservation

This article has the purpose of studying the impact of new technologies in data protection in the European Union. On one hand, many operators can use data which refer to the people who call by phone, that's to say, who receives those calls and when are made. Taking account these operators manage a net that is interconnected with others, users should know different companies must retain data during a period of time. On the other hand, Internet and new technologies, that allow hosting much information, are ways to breach the legislation on data protection. For example, cookies are files that are introduced in computers to control and view the web pages visited by the users. In this way, companies and operators can manage personal data without affected citizens' consent. User can't exercise the right to change and remove their data. Data protection legislation , states that holders of particulars have the right to supervise the objective for using data.