ROME (ITALPRESS) – The recently approved standard for the creation and management of “green certifications”, the so-called vaccination passes, presents “criticalities such as to invalidate, if not appropriately modified, the validity and functioning of the system envisaged for the reopening of travel during the pandemic. Urgent action is therefore needed to protect people’s rights and freedoms “. This is the indication of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data contained in a formal warning, adopted pursuant to the EU Regulation, just sent to all the ministries and other parties involved. The provision was also sent to the President of the Council of Ministers, for the relevant assessments. The Guarantor first of all observes that the so-called “reopening decree” does not guarantee a suitable regulatory basis for the introduction and use of green certificates on a national scale, and is seriously incomplete in terms of data protection, without an assessment of possible risks. on a large scale for personal rights and freedoms. “In contrast to the provisions of the European regulation on the protection of personal data, the decree does not precisely define the purposes for the processing of data on the health of Italians, leaving room for multiple and unpredictable future uses, in potential misalignment even with similar European initiatives – underlines the Guarantor -. It is not specified who is the owner of the data processing, in violation of the principle of transparency, making it difficult if not impossible to exercise the rights of the interested parties: for example, in case of incorrect information contained in the green certifications. The standard also provides for an excessive use of data on the certificates to be exhibited in the event of control, in violation of the principle of minimization. To guarantee, for example, the temporal validity of the certification, it would have been sufficient to provide a form reporting only the expiry date of the green pass, instead of using m different odels for those who have previously fallen ill with Covid or have undergone vaccination. The currently proposed system, especially in the transitional phase, risks, among other things, to contain inaccurate or outdated data with serious effects on individual freedom of movement “.” Finally, there are no data retention times or adequate measures to guarantee the their integrity and confidentiality. Finally, the Guarantor points out that the serious criticalities found could have been resolved in advance and in a very short time if, as required by European and Italian legislation, the subjects involved in the definition of the law decree had initiated the necessary dialogue with the Authority, requesting the expected opinion, without postponing to further investigations “, concludes the Authority, which has however offered the Government its collaboration to address and overcome the criticisms found. (ITALPRESS). sat / com 23-Apr-21 19:28
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