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Figure 4: Electronical Administration Challenges

Areas of Elements
Law aspects ICT aspects
Action & Tools

Electronic Rights and Interested Normative Leadership
Duties

Public Administration Relational
Legal Regime Activity Management
Electronic Organizational
Administration
PAC-Administrative Strategic Direction
Acts
Electronic
Management of Technological
Procedures Electronic Operation Projects
of the Public Sector management
Cooperation Public Administration
Interoperability Relations Citizen Services ICT architecture

2.9 Privacy and data protection

Currently, there are many questions about the challenge of privacy in Smart Cities.

The integral management of data has become a reality that affects personal and collective life.
A large part of the city’s professional, economic and private activity occurs on the Internet. It has
acquired a fundamental importance for human communication and for our life in society. Today, the
risks and opportunities that the world of networks offers to citizens are identified. Public authorities
must protect the citizens’ rights in networks by promoting the equality of citizens and the groups
in which they are integrated in order to make the whole exercise of fundamental rights in digital
reality possible.

While “privacy” is an important aspect that must be considered for establishing a City Platform,
there must be a compromise between privacy and citizens’ privacy rights.

At the European level, the realisation and development of fundamental rights of protection of
natural persons regarding personal data processing are set out in Article 8 of the Charter of
Fundamental Rights of the European Union and in Article 16.1 of the Treaty on the Functioning of
the European Union.

Previously, at the European level, Directive 95/46/EC had been adopted, the purpose of which
was to ensure that the guarantee of the right to the protection of personal data did not constitute
an obstacle to the free movement of data within the Union, thus establishing a common area of
guarantee of the right which, at the same time, ensures that in the event of an international transfer

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