The Hungarian Parliament adopted by 6 July 2015 an amendment ('the Amendment') of the Act No CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-Determination and Freedom of Information ('the Information Act') that…
The Hungarian Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) has recently disclosed that parts of its IT systems were breached (namely the E-Register application, the electronic register of Hungarian industrial property applications) as…
The bill on the amendment of the Act Nr C. of 2003 on electronic communications, the transposition of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive 2009/136/EC has been adopted today by the Hungarian Parliament.
As reported earlier, the draft bill submitted to the Parliament – similarly to the position of the UK, Ireland, Latvia, the Netherlands and Sweden – originally required prior consent to the storage of cookies in the users’ terminal equipment. However, during the debate of the bill in the Parliament, the Parliament Committee for Economics and Informatics has submitted an amending proposal to the bill on 29 June 2011, which has altered the language of the cookie consent rule in the draft and eliminated the requirement for the consent to be “prior”.
