{"id":36643,"date":"2023-11-30T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T09:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/?p=36643"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:13:55","slug":"commissioner-believes-there-is-no-reason-to-react-in-sns-call-center-case-sabic-disagrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/commissioner-believes-there-is-no-reason-to-react-in-sns-call-center-case-sabic-disagrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Believes There Is No Reason to React in SNS Call Center Case, \u0160abi\u0107 Disagrees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Center for Investigative Journalism of Serbia<\/em> (CINS) published an article<\/a> yesterday about SNS\u2019s call center, in which suspicions were raised that their databases contain data such as people\u2019s Unique Master Citizen Number, addresses, and polling stations. As proof, we also published a photo of the database and the data it contains. According to CINS\u2019s source, who is familiar with the work of the call center, we are all in that database, regardless of who we vote for.<\/p>

After we asked the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection<\/em> if they would react to this, we received a response from their office stating that this is not possible.<\/p>

“Based on your article, we don\u2019t know whether the lists containing citizens’ data came from a database of members and sympathizers that each political party has, or from some other database, and there is no legal basis for the Commissioner to react in this specific case.”<\/p>

However, former Commissioner<\/em> Rodoljub \u0160abi\u0107<\/strong> believes the opposite.<\/p>

“Of course we don\u2019t know, but that’s why it should be looked into. There are definitely indications that it could be a database that was not created, as parties usually explain, during door-to-door campaigns or by collecting data at stands and party meetings or conferences.”<\/p>

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\u0160abi\u0107 recalls a case from five years ago when pensioners in Serbia received a letter signed by Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107<\/strong>, with the Serbian Progressive Party<\/em> (SNS) mark on the envelope. At that time, as the Commissioner<\/em>, he filed a criminal complaint against an unknown person from The Pension and Disability Insurance Fund<\/em> on suspicion that they had provided this party with personal data of pensioners.<\/p>

He explains that this is still possible \u2013 the Commissioner<\/em> can look into whether the personal data of citizens that ended up at SNS\u2019s call center came from institutions.<\/p>

“In the event that the suspicion is well-founded, there is not only a basis for the Commissioner<\/em> to react [in relation to the call center] and the prohibition of further processing of that data, but also a basis for the prosecution to get involved”, \u0160abi\u0107 explains, adding that if these doubts are confirmed, the prosecutor can react.<\/p>

“It is then a criminal offense from Article 146 of the Criminal Code (unauthorized collection of personal data) and there is a basis for the prosecution to get involved.”<\/p>

He believes that the Commissioner’s<\/em> interpretation is \u201cnarrow and rigid sympathizers and that at the very least, it is certainly possible to look into those doubts.<\/p>

As a reminder, Ana Toski\u0107 Cvetinovi\u0107<\/strong> from the Partners Serbia<\/em> organization, which, among other things, deals with the protection of privacy and personal data, told CINS that people who work with databases should have training for working with sensitive data.<\/p>

\u201cIf they are employed, it should be written in their employment contract, or there should be some internal procedures obliging people to keep the data confidential.\u201d<\/p>

The source with whom CINS spoke says that they did not have this kind of training.<\/p>

Toski\u0107 added that the bigger problem here is that this database exists, especially if it is a copy of the voter list.<\/p>

\u201cThe purpose of that database [voter list] is to conduct elections, not political propaganda. No party should ever have that. (\u2026) It can create a database of its own confirmed voters, under some of its own criteria, and it should have the consent of the people whose data it processes.\u201d<\/p>

According to CINS\u2019s source, the work is divided into those who make calls to so-called key voters and a smaller number of those who enter data into the database and check it.<\/p>

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Following the publication of the article about the operations of SNS\u2019s call center and the possible misuse of personal data of all citizens, the office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection states that they cannot react. However, former Commissioner Rodoljub \u0160abi\u0107 believes the opposite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":36908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1604,1497,1573],"tags":[1921,1937,1611,2197],"class_list":["post-36643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hp-slider","category-news","category-political-parties","tag-election-campaign","tag-elections","tag-serbian-progressive-party","tag-snss-call-center","ciTrackContent"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-11-30-at-16.37.17-966x860-1.png","author_additional":[1378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36917,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36643\/revisions\/36917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cins.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}