In relation to ever more frequent announcements about the introduction of the large scale surveillance in apartment buildings in Belgrade and other places, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection warns that these matters have to be handled very seriously taking into consideration all the possible consequences when putting them to practise.
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has assessed as very indicative and from the perspective of the relationship of the authorities towards the rights of the citizens worrying, the extremely big increase in the number of cases upon which he takes action.
Pointing to the fact that only in the past month the Commissioner’s Office registered 530 new cases, the Commissioner has warned that nothing, not even the forthcoming pre-election atmosphere cannot and must not justify the problems in exercising the citizens’ rights guaranteed by the Constitution and law.Concerning this, the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic has also said:
Due to frequent citizens’ appeals, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection has appealed today to all the political parties to refrain from any activities during their pre-election campaign which are inconsistent with the standards set by the Personal Data Protection Law, and he has warned all the authorities not to approve such activities in any way.
The Commissioner has warned that the use of personal data collections, especially those owned by the authorities, like for example voters lists, for the purposes for which they are not compiled, represents an unauthorized data processing, an offence penalized by law and under certain circumstances even a criminal act. The Commissioner has called on all the people involved to refrain from such activities and not only because of the threatened penalties, but to give at least minimal contribution to improving the bad condition in the field of personal data protection.
In relation to this the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic has also said:
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection met today in Belgrade with the Ambassador Dimitrios Kypreos, the Head of the OSCE Mission and discussed with him the further cooperation of this international organization ant the institution of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.
In relation to this the Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic has also said:
