Several managers of public and private institutions in the province of namibe were clarified, in a seminar, on the operation and application of the Personal Data Protection Law.
According to the director of the provincial office of Registries and Administrative Modernization of Namibe, Lenine dos Santos, said that data protection plays an important role in the context of guaranteeing fundamental rights and reserving the privacy of citizens who feel deprived of institutional protection.
This type of protection, he underlined, is recognized by the Universal Declaration and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, which prioritizes respect for the private life of any person.
"We were presented with how each institution must preserve the private life of the citizen, in order to guarantee the trust of the users in the protection and personal reserve”, he considered.
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Adilson Gouveia, ombudsman for the respective province, informed that the institution, dedicated to the defence, rights and guarantees of citizens, intervened in more than two cases of breach of secrecy with institutions that, as a rule, tend to violate the protection of personal data and confidentiality.
Also present at the opening of the seminar was the director of the Support Office for the Board of Directors of the APD, Francisco Ferreira, where he considered that the activity was part of the dissemination and involvement axis of Law nº 22/11, of June 17 which formalizes the creation of the Data Protection Agency, which is responsible for regulating, controlling and supervising the compliance with the legal provisions related to the processing of private data carried out by public and private sector entities and cooperatives.
