Source: "Blic"
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Commissioner for Information, Rodoljub Sabic has, after the first criminal charge submitted due to personal data abuse and falsifying citizens’ signatures during entry into special electoral register of one of the national minorities in New Belgrade, submitted another 12 criminal charges, and in the next few days still few more shall be submitted.
- Criminal charges pertain only to the most drastic legal forms, to situations in which foundations for doubt are evident, that the data have been acquired in completely unauthorized way, and the signature of citizens on the requests for entry has been forged. Couple of hundreds of such situations have been covered. Number of other, „more benign” abuses or criminal acts might be even much bigger, and it is extremely difficult to determine. Not to even talk about offences of the Personal Data Protection Act in the form of creating private, party or who-knows-what, of course, illegal collections of data about thousands of people – says Sabic for „Blic” (Flashlight).
Sabic repeated that the main culprit for the things that have happened is the instruction on the procedure of entry into special electoral register of the national minority of the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights. As he says, it is absurd that this instruction is still valid and that anyone, who has anybody’s data, can „on his behalf” complete the request, sign and submit it, and the municipal official in charge must register it, without asking for any authorization and without determining one’s identity.