Criminal Trend Analysis of Illegal Use of Personal Data for a Period of 2015-2019

This paper presents an analysis of the criminal offence of the unauthorised use of personal data in the Criminal code of the Republic of Croatia, described in article 146 (including the incidence of these crimes over a five-year period). The paper analyses the impact and efficiency of criminal offences under the code for a five-year period from 2015-2019 by reviewing data related to reported criminal offences with detailed statistics about reported, resolved and subsequently discovered offences of illegal use of personal data in the Republic of Croatia. Authors have chosen this specific period of time due to the fact that the European General Data Protection Regulative (GDPR) became active in 2018 and it is directly obliging all the member states to pursue consistent implementation regarding personal data. Inter alia, an analysis was performed on victims as well as perpetrators of relevant criminal offences and shown also by the gender. The objectives of the research were to discover how efficient were Croatian institutions in solving criminal offences that are related to illegal use of personal data in the Republic of Croatia 2015-2019. The paper also describes descriptive statistical data concerning these offences and give us prediction of a number of possible offences for a following year.