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The Commissioner for the Right to Information has reacted after the publication of the news by Top Channel for another scandal of violation of the right to personal data, where the telephone numbers of three million Albanians have been advertised on a website to be sold.
The Office of the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Personal Data Protection will undertake an administrative investigation seeking the cooperation of any institution responsible for clarifying the circumstances of the case.
AI calls on all bodies operating in this sector to be aware of the obligation to respect this individual right.
Top Channel journalist Muhamed Veliu, has identified a website which has a database of 3 million mobile phone numbers, along with the names of users of these numbers and the job position of the person to whom the phone number belongs.
The owners of the database of these numbers have also listed the selling prices. It is enough to have a bank card and in a few seconds you become their possessor.
4,000 dollars is the price for the purchase of 3 million data for Albanian mobile phone numbers. $ 1,500 if you were to buy 1 million number records, $ 1,000 for 500,000 numbers and $ 350 per 100,000 numbers.
The possessor of 3 million Albanian telephone numbers and their seller through an internet platform is a person who uses the name Munnaf Hossain. According to him, the list he has put up for sale is accurate, authentic, updated with correct information accompanied by phone number, name of the person and postal code.
To prove this Munnaf Hossain has published on his website as an example a part of this database.
Top Channel verified the numbers on this list. It turned out that they are in use and belong to the persons whose name is written on the right of this list.
It remains unclear how Munnaf Hossain was able to secure the 3 million Albanian mobile phone numbers at a time when the law strictly stipulates who should dispose of these numbers.
In the list published as an example for buyers, is the name of security expert Redion Qirjazi who told Top Channel that “finding the culprit always remains the biggest challenge in cyber security threats.”
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks in the US, where terrorist cells used unregistered telephone numbers, in the US and the EU, legislation drastically changed to block the sale of unregistered numbers.
The same thing happened in Albania. All buyers of a number must sign a set of letters and then become the owners of the number.
But all this is devalued both in terms of privacy or security at a time when 3 million Albanian mobile numbers have been put up for sale.
The full response of the Office of Commissioner for the Right to Information and Personal Data Protection
The Office of the Commissioner for the Right to Information and Personal Data Protection, as the supervisory authority of the legislation on personal data protection, seriously assesses any case of violation / violation of this right and fundamental human freedom.
The Office of the Commissioner has been informed by information published in the media, about the sale of a database on the Internet, which contains generalities, telephone numbers and a job for 3 million citizens.
Pursuant to Article 35 of the Constitution of the Republic of Albania and in fulfillment of the obligations defined in law no. 9887/2008 “On personal data protection”, as amended, the Office of the Commissioner will undertake an administrative investigation, and will seek the cooperation of each institution responsible for clarifying the circumstances of the case.
Assessing the role of the media in exposing negative phenomena, the Office of the Commissioner calls on all bodies operating in this sector (audio / visual, written, online) to be aware of the obligation to respect this individual right. .
The exercise of the right to freedom of expression is not unlimited and in any case, is realized in a balanced and proportionate manner with other fundamental rights and freedoms sanctioned in the Constitution of the Republic of Albania, or in international acts to which our country is a party. (European Convention on Human Rights, Convention 108 “On the protection of individuals against automatic processing of personal data” of the Council of Europe, etc.).
The “highest public interest” takes precedence over any attempt to turn this situation into a very dangerous game for violating the privacy and personal data of citizens.
On the other hand, public opinion should be extra careful and aware to refuse involvement in the illegal use / dissemination of this database through any means and form of mass communication.
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