Attila Péterfalvi

Attila Péterfalvi is president of Hungary's National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH). In April 2026, NAIH under Péterfalvi declined to open an ex officio investigation after government-aligned media outlets and officials — including State Secretary Zoltán Kovács and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán himself — publicly disclosed the name, photograph and home address of a Tisza Party-linked IT worker known as "Buddha," amid unproven espionage allegations; Péterfalvi explained that "if it doesn't hurt him, we won't launch an official investigation either, because on one hand this is quite a unique case, and on the other we are very overloaded." In February 2026, NAIH likewise declined to investigate how criminal records belonging to Roma protesters from Gyöngyös reached Construction Minister János Lázár, Viktor Orbán, and government-aligned media; Péterfalvi told those affected to seek information directly from the data handler — meaning Lázár himself. Legal expert Ádám Remport, commenting on the case, said "the response suggests that the authority is avoiding taking ex officio action in the matter." Both cases are documented examples of NAIH routinely declining to use its investigative powers in cases of suspected data misuse benefiting the government.