O Algarve Movement by Palestine told the municipality to perform the concentration through an ’email’ Signed by three activists, who, beyond the full name, also indicated the tax identification numbers, mobile phones and addresses.
The Faro Chamber shared with more than 30 entities the personal data of the organizers of a demonstration of support for Palestine, which takes place this Thursday in Faro, denounced the Civic Platform .
“It is a very serious mistake because it endangers the protection of sensitive data, especially in a very serious movement in which the growth of hatred is seen,” one of the organizers, Felícia Silva told Lusa.
As required by law, the Movement communicated to the municipality to perform the concentration through an ’email’ Signed by three activists, who, beyond the full name, also indicated the tax identification numbers, mobile phones and addresses.
For Felícia Silva, these data already constitute “sensitive information to be shared for ‘general emails’, let alone the sharing of personal data of subscribers by more than 30 public and private entities, since Hotels, diocese and even a transport company.
“It is a serious situation when, completely negligently and carefully, the camera refers an ’email’ to all these entities, copying our ’email’ in full to a document from which a PDF does not remove our data,” he said.
For the person in charge, the situation is so much more serious when the municipality has at its disposal a service dedicated to data protection and yet “also endanger the security of the subscribers” of the information sent to the House.
Activists question mayor
However, at least two of the concentration subscribers addressed on a personal name, an ’email’ to the mayor of Faro, in which Rogério Bacalhau question “on the foundation of the legitimacy of communication” of your personal data.
However, until 15:30, the subscribers had not yet received “any explanation or apology” by the municipality, said Felicia Silva, adding that the illegality will be the subject of a complaint to .
“The House now has a period of 30 days to answer. If there is no answer, or if the answer is that there is no justification for the succeed, there will be a participation to the National Commission for Data Protection,” he concluded.
The “Panelate Panelado Palestine and against Genocide in the Gaza Strip” is scheduled for this Wednesday, departing from the Arco da Vila for a course of about 20 minutes through the Faro Center.
The Lusa Agency contacted the Faro Chamber, but did not get a timely response.
