Author: Lucas Cortizo

Legal Counsel at Office of the Information and Data Protection Commissioner of Malta

Guidelines on the processing of personal data for political campaigning purposes

The Guidelines on the processing of personal data for political campaigning purposes (the “Guidelines”) have been adopted to provide a clear and uniform interpretation of the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation1 (the “Regulation”) and the Data Protection Act (Chapter 586 of the Laws of Malta) (the “Act”) in the political environment where political parties and candidates process personal data for the purposes of carrying out political campaigning and promoting their political ideologies and messages.

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