GDPR – Challenges for Reconciling Legal Rules with Technical Reality

The main real impact of the GDPR regulation of the EU should be improving the protection of data concerning physical persons. The sharp GDPR rules have to create a controllable information environment, and to prevent misuse of personal data. The general legal norms of GDPR may, indeed, be regarded as justified and well motivated by the existing threats, however, substantial problems emerge when we attempt to implement GDPR in a real information processing systems setting.