Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, Rodoljub Sabic, appealed in his letter to the Minister of Health, Dr Zlatibor Loncar, to undertake measures to ensure that video surveillance in psychiatric institutions is established and functioning in a lawful manner, complying equivalently with its actual purpose.
Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection estimates that yesterday's publicly address, "the response" of the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government (MDULS), to the Commissioner, was an extremely improper attempt to manipulate the public.
The Commissioner initiated the monitoring procedure in response to the news broadcasted in the media that the MDULS and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had signed a "Business and Technical Cooperation Agreement", which was aimed to "establish electronic records on citizens of Serbia" and that "the process of data entry from citizenship records into the so-called Central Registry, will start as of date of the news announcement. "
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has initiated, based on the news published in the media, that the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government and Ministry of Interior have signed „Agreement on Operational–Technical Cooperation“, having for its objective "establishing electronic records on the citizens of Serbia", as well as that "commencing with the date of publishing this news shall start the process of registering the data from the Book of Citizens in so-called Central Register", the supervision procedure over implementation of the Personal Data Protection Law by those two Ministries.
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection pointed out in the letter to the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications that it is necessary that the Ministry as the competent body should initiate the procedure for amending the existing legal regulations regarding legal grounds and the purpose of personal data processing in the procedure of issuing qualified electronic certificate.
