The executive director of the Data Protection Agency (APD), Paulo Pedro, warned that if citizens have their personal data exposed in companies and on the internet without any consent, they must automatically file reports to hold the authors criminally responsible. Paulo Pedro advocated the need to protect the personal information of internet users and other services to prevent criminal situations.
The person in charge was speaking during the II Consultative Council of the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication (MINTTICS) held over two days in the city of Huambo, held under the motto “Connect and Communicate for Citizenship”. He explained, according to Angop, that the APD seeks to monitor personal data in public and private companies, based on virtual image, fingerprint, voice, documents and other individual information mechanisms, creating security mechanisms.
The executive director recalled that to avoid possible criminal acts by any identity or company, care must always be taken to accurately detail the objectives of requests for personal data and the purpose of the process in question, to discourage criminal acts. He specified that in situations of cyber attacks on companies, for example, managers only have 72 hours to notify the Data Protection Agency.
Without this procedure, these institutions must be held responsible for the dispersion of workers’ personal data. He warned that there are prize announcements via telephone and other internet devices in the country, without citizens knowing the mechanism used that exposes their personal data to supposed companies, many of them with fake profiles.