Abstract
This paper seeks to make an analysis of and comment on – from a critical point of view – the legislative limits imposed by leg. Dec. 33/2013, which aims to strike an appropriate balance between the principle aim (and primary motive behind the legislation) of increasing administrative transparency and the simultaneous (and necessary) call for appropriate protection of personal data that may be contained within deeds/documents subject to compulsory publication, as per the law on the institutional websites of the Public Administration. In particular, the Author intends to demonstrate how the rules regarding protection and the limits of transparency contained in the cited legislation are insufficient for this purpose since they seem to leave a series of risks/dangers for confidentiality and the protection of citizens’ personal data. These problem areas have been grouped together in the following issues, examined separately: firstly, the free indexation and traceability of published personal data through internet search engines; secondly, the possible (free) reuse of such data and, finally, the duration of the publication, as well as the post expiry storage of such personal data. For each of these critical areas, an attempt is made in the reconstructive part of the paper to consider whether there is scope for their solution by interpretative means through systematic reconciliation, or whether such an exegetical effort implies that the only option is ultimately de jure condendo reform.