Personal data protection: Terminological and legal analysis from translation premises (German-Spanish)

Abstract

The Regulation (EU) 2016/679, which repeals Directive 95/46/EC or General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has an impact on the processing of personal data, on the free movement of such data and is an essential law to strengthen individuals’ right in the digital age. This Regulation, applied since May 2018, supposes a legislative and technological adaption in the EU States, and the application of control and security systems in these countries, although there were previous Community provisions and state laws. But just now it acquires new importance and in some cases a change of denomination is necessary. All that implies a vast array of new concepts, which must be understood in order to comply with this Regulation. The main purposes of this work are 1) to analyse the terminology of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 from two points of view: first of all, we will analyse the legal concepts; secondly, we will study which methods or mechanisms of words composition are used in German; 2) to establish linguistic equivalences of those concepts for the combinatory German-Spanish. As a result, we hope to achieve a glossary of terms, which will be useful for the translation of texts about personal data protection.