The news that the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights A11 submitted to the Constitutional Court an initiative to start the procedure for the constitutionality assessment of the Law on the Social Card, revealed that the said Law allows 135 data to be taken from the beneficiaries of social protection!
This amount of personal data does not exist in any other life situation in Serbia, they point out in A11 and believe that this indicates a violation of the basic principles of personal data protection.
They say that even the MUP does not use so much data on one person.
According to them, this reveals the legislator's intention to use new technologies for the purpose of stricter control of the poor, and not for the sake of improving the system and improving the work of overburdened centers for social work.
Taking someone's 135 data does not imply an increase in the efficiency of the process, nor will it facilitate the realization of social rights, but rather the intention to deprive someone of a right, that is, to shorten the use of a right as soon as possible. The data will be processed by an algorithm, artificial intelligence, and we do not know how this data will be processed and what it will be used for. We think that the social security of citizens, which is guaranteed by the Constitution and international documents, has not been respected here. We believe that this law is very problematic and that it will only lead to big problems and violations of rights in practice," said Milica Marinković from A11.
They also emphasize that the provisions of the Law on the Social Card do not sufficiently clearly prescribe how this processing is carried out, and leave room for the violation of the rights of the poorest citizens of Serbia. It is particularly worrying that it is Art. 17 of the Social Card Act anticipated automated processing of personal data that is contrary to the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Persons in relation to the automatic processing of personal data. They warn that the Social Card system was established as the opposite of the proclaimed goal, but also with basic constitutional guarantees and guarantees from ratified international treaties. That is why the urgent reaction of the Constitutional Court and determination of the unconstitutionality of the Social Card Act is necessary.
S.Ć. /N1
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