Explicit Consent: For most marketing and direct commercial outreach to individuals, prior, explicit, and informed consent is a fundamental requirement. This makes mass compilation and use of phone numbers without permission illegal.
Purpose Limitation: Data can only be collected for specified, legitimate purposes, and its usage must strictly adhere to those defined purposes.
Data Subject Rights: Individuals possess extensive rights, including the right to access, rectify, erase (the "right to be forgotten"), and object to the processing of their data, particularly for direct marketing.
ANSPDCP (Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal): This independent national authority rigorously enforces GDPR and national data protection laws, chile phone number library with powers to levy substantial fines for non-compliance.
Romania's major telecommunications providers, such as Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania, and Telekom Romania, manage subscriber data under strict privacy agreements and GDPR. They do not release comprehensive public directories of individual phone numbers.
While Romania doesn't operate a centralized "Do Not Call" registry in the traditional sense, the GDPR's consent rules effectively serve this purpose for personal numbers. Cold calling is generally restricted for automated systems, and cold emailing requires consent unless a "Previous Business Context Exception" applies, demanding an opt-in or double opt-in. The Romanian Association for Direct Marketing also operates a voluntary opt-out list.