POLITICS.HU reports on concerns by Hungary Data Protection Ombudsman Andras Jori over a constitutional draft that would remove the current data protection post and replace it with a new authority overseeing data and information protection. Jori wrote a letter to the drafting committee expressing fears that the new office would not fulfill such key roles as independent monitoring of classified data. If the draft is adopted, he noted, citizens would also not be able to turn to the Constitutional Court with individual appeals, the report states.
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