Hungarian Government Suspends GDPR Data Subjects Rights
On May 4, 2020, the Hungarian Government issued a Decree that suspends, during the COVID-19 created state of emergency, the one-month deadline that controllers have under the GDPR to reply to data subject rights requests.
According to the Decree, the normal one-month deadline to reply to data subject rights requests will start running once the state of emergency ends, for which there is no fixed date yet.
The Decree also allows public entities to refuse or suspend freedom of information (“FOIA”) requests in certain situations. The Decree has been heavily criticized by civil society groups and prompted the scrutiny by the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”).
Source: Hungarian Government Suspends GDPR Data Subjects Rights
