“Agreement to consent to discord”: can you delete an already published interview

Can I withdraw my consent to the interview? About this at the city seminar “Dialogue of power and society through media communication”, which took place on October 28, said the Deputy head of the methodology of personal data protection of the National center for personal data protection Nadezhda Shved, the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti”.

According to Shved, the definition of “personal data” includes any information that allows you to identify an individual. This is not only F.I.O., residence and passport data, but also photo-video images, voice recording, information about visits to the doctor, relations in the family, the position held. The basic principles of data processing are universal: legality, minimization, reliability and availability of a legal basis.

- If you can refrain from publishing unnecessary details of private life, health information or intimate details, this is worth taking advantage of, she said.

At the same time, the legislation allows state bodies and organizations to use publicly available information, including from public accounts of citizens in social networks, for prompt feedback and solving problematic issues without obtaining additional consent.

An important legal nuance concerns the interaction of citizens with the media. The specialist explained that the consent of a person to comment in front of the camera is regulated by the Media Act and does not apply to the requirements of the Personal Data Protection Act.

Citizens do not always understand that consent is discord. If a person voluntarily walked up to a microphone or gave an interview in front of a camera, they gave consent under the Media Act. His subsequent attempts to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data are not grounds for the withdrawal of content already released in circulation, since such consent to the processing of personal data was not required initially, Shved said.

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