More than a thousand complaints have been submitted to the National Center for Personal Data Protection since the beginning of the year
Over the past five years, citizens have become more active in using mechanisms to protect their personal data. In 2022, the National Center received about 100 complaints.
Over the past five years, citizens have become more active in using mechanisms to protect their personal data. If in 2022 the National Center received about 100 complaints per year, this year their number exceeded 1 thousand. Such figures were announced by the director of the National Center for Personal Data Protection Andrey Gaev today, November 11, at a press presentation in the National Press Center.
Compared to last year, the number of applications increased by more than 2.2 times. The subject of complaints is also changing. Citizens apply for video surveillance by neighbors, placement of personal information on the Internet, data processing by organizations and employers. In the past, about 40 per cent of complaints were related to trade and services, but now the proportion of complaints related to domestic and personal situations is growing sharply.
- At the same time, we see a growing trend of abuse of their rights in the field of personal data protection by individual citizens. That's also the case. For example, a person was denied a certificate within the framework of an administrative procedure, and he is trying to find some contradictions through the legislation on personal data and challenge this decision of the body, Andrey Gaev added.
Against this background, an important part of the work of the Center for Personal Data Protection remains the improvement of legal and digital literacy of the population. A professional community of personal data protection specialists is also developing. The branch of the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers was created on the initiative of representatives of various industries.
According to Kirill Laptev, chairman of the department of personal data protection specialists at the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers, interest in the department’s activities is growing: more than 200 people registered for one of the events during the first day. About 40 specialists joined the department this year.
- At the same time, other representatives of the legal community, already members of the Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers, can participate in its work, Kirill Laptev said. Uncertified software and neural networks: the NCPD called the main causes of information leakage
