The symbiotic relationship between privacy and security in the context of the general data protection regulation

Traditionally, privacy and security are considered to be opposing values, constantly to be seen in contrast with each other. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how technological development, instead of worsening the cleavage between privacy and security, allows considering the two principles to be inter-related and to affect each other reciprocally. By first theorising this relationship, the article will then take the GDPR as a case-study to demonstrate how effective data protection legislation considers the security of individuals, software and data to be crucial feature of such laws. © 2019, Europäische Rechtsakademie (ERA).