Romania retrenches on data retention

Abstract

The geographical terrain that is the culture of privacy often seems to wane in discourse to the geographical terrain that is the concept of privacy. When we talk about the latter, we do so often under the techno-economic aegis of how a wealth of information can lead to a poverty of attention. Yet, when we discuss privacy in its former cultural terms, we tend to do so under the same mantra but applied in reverse; namely, a wealth of attention leads to a poverty of information. Such interchangeable contextualisations, however subtle, are important. Citing a very recent Romanian Constitutional Court decision, what will be proffered in this paper will be the simple, yet cogent observation, that the deductionism of privacy that tends to occur – and indeed needs to occur in many circumstances – should not come at the expense of didacticism in the privacy debate.