The national data protection authority under the view of cost-benefit analysis

Abstract

The article deals with the institution of a National Data Protection Authority from the perspective of applying the concepts of Regulatory Impact Analysis and the Cost-Benefit Analysis tool. Under the application of these tools as mitigating instruments of unwanted influences in regulatory decision-making, it analyzes the possibility or not of a national authority that is as disconnected as possible from political and economic influences of specific sectors of society, with the creation of policies of protection that accompany the growing technological development of the virtual environment.