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Νόμος 2472/1997 [Προστασία Προσωπικών Δεδομένων]

Article 2 Definitions For the purposes of this law: a) ‘Personal data’ shall mean any

information relating to the data subject. Personal data are not considered to be the
consolidated data of a statistical nature whence data subjects may no longer be

identified. b) ‘Sensitive data’ shall mean the data referring to racial or ethnic origin,

political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, membership to a trade union,
health, social welfare and sexual life, criminal charges or convictions as well as

membership to societies dealing with the aforementioned areas. In particular, in cases
of criminal charges or convictions, it is possible to allow their publication by the Public

Prosecutor’s Office for the offences referred to in item b, paragraph 2 of Article 3
following an order by the competent Public Prosecutor of the Court of First Instance or

the chief Public Prosecutor if the case is pending before the Court of Appeal. The

publication of criminal charges or convictions aims at the protection of the community,
of minors and of vulnerable or disadvantaged groups, as well as at the facilitation of the

punishment of those offences by the State. c) ‘Data Subject’ shall mean any natural

person to whom such data refer and whose identity is known or may be found, i.e.,
his/her identity may be determined directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to

an identity card number or to one or more factors specific to his/her physical,
physiological, mental, economic, cultural, political or social identity. d) ‘Processing of

personal data’ ("processing") shall mean any operation or set of operations which is
performed upon personal data by Public Administration or by a public law entity or

private law entity or an association or a natural person, whether or not by automatic

means, such as collection, recording, organisation, preservation or storage,
modification, retrieval, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise

making available, correlation or combination, interconnection, blocking (locking),
erasure or destruction. e) ‘Personal Data File’ (‘File’) shall mean any structured set of

personal data which are accessible on the basis of specific criteria. f) ‘Interconnection’
shall mean a means of processing consisting in the possibility of co-relating the data

from a file to the data from a file or files kept by another Controller or Controllers or

with data from a file or files kept by the same Controller for another purpose. g)
‘Controller’ shall mean any person who determines the scope and means of the