An approach to the protection of personal data of adults and minors from a social perspective as a preliminary phase to a legal translation.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study the legislation regarding children’s data protection in the European Union, Spain and United Kingdom from a translator’s perspective. As new technologies are introduced on a continuous basis in our daily lives, data protection on Internet has become a major social concern, particularly when it comes to children’s data protection, which takes on greater relevance. Data protection is a legal issue of the utmost topicality in which the conflict between freedom of information and data processing – along with freedom of expression and privacy– emerges as one of the great challenges of our time. Furthermore, it also leads to large and deep doctrinal discrepancies as a result of the fact that Information and Communication Technologies imply new forms of interference which had not thus far been addressed. As part of the documentation process prior to a translation, a contrastive analysis of the legislation in the European Union, Spain and United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) is carried out.