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forest444

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Tue Jul 26, 2016, 02:33 PM Jul 2016

Argentina's Macri to use all individual social security data for "mass communication" campaigns.

The embattled right-wing administration of Argentine President Mauricio Macri announced a "cooperation agreement framework" between the Ministry of Communication and the ANSES social security agency that would give the executive branch have access to data on the country's entire adult population of 32 million people.

The database, which would be overseen by Communications Minister Jorge Greco and Chief of Staff Marcos Peña (both close personal friends of Macri), includes names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and places, National ID (DNI) and taxpayer ID (CUIT/CUIL) numbers, e-mail addresses, work and educational history, and other private data.

The database, according to the decree, would be utilized "in order to reach people with information about government actions."

This decree, enacted by way of Resolution 166 on June 22 but published in the Official Gazette only yesterday, was strongly rejected by numerous civil liberties NGOs as well as by lawmakers from the center-left Front for Victory and the centrist Renewal Front.

Resolution 166, they agreed, would violate both the Law on Personal Data Protection (enacted in 2000 to counter increasing identity theft) and habeas data and privacy rights guaranteed in Articles 19 and 43 of the Argentine Constitution.

At: http://buenosairesherald.com/article/218718/government-could-use-anses-data-for-communication-campaigns

And: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.noticiasurbanas.com.ar/noticias/denuncian-al-gobierno-por-los-datos-del-anses/&prev=search

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Argentina's Macri to use all individual social security data for "mass communication" campaigns. (Original Post) forest444 Jul 2016 OP
10 will get you one that this information is either already in the hands of ID thieves... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2016 #1
And guess who Macri's biggest U.S. fan is: forest444 Jul 2016 #2
 

friendly_iconoclast

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1. 10 will get you one that this information is either already in the hands of ID thieves...
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 03:23 PM
Jul 2016

...or will be soon.

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