The protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security and the free movement of such data, is the subject of a specific Union legal act.
Maidir le daoine nádúrtha a chosaint i ndáil le sonraí pearsanta a phróiseáil ag údaráis inniúla chun cionta coiriúla a chosc, a imscrúdú, a bhrath nó a ionchúiseamh nó chun pionóis choiriúla a fhorghníomhú, lena n-áirítear coimirciú a dhéanamh in aghaidh bagairtí ar an tslándáil phoiblí agus na bagairtí sin a chosc, agus saorghluaiseacht sonraí den sórt sin, tá an chosaint sin agus an tsaorghluaiseacht sin faoi réir gníomh dlí sonrach de chuid an Aontais.