Africa-Press – Angola. A large number of public companies process workers’ personal data without complying with the requirements required by law, jeopardizing the normal functioning of the data regulation process, said yesterday the director of market relations at the Central Private Bureau of Information of Credit, Julay Morais.
According to the manager, one of these situations is the provision of workers’ data to third parties without their authorization or due knowledge and, this, constitutes non-compliance with legal requirements.
Due to these occurrences, the official highlighted the need to expand and incorporate data protection in citizens’ lives, complying with the law.
As for numbers, he said that there are many companies that use workers’ personal data without their consent. “In 2022, more than 500 companies showed an interest in processing the personal data of workers, among them, those in the banking, telecommunications, aviation, oil and mixed trade sectors”.
Thus, he recommended, companies have to make large investments in order to obtain technologies capable of guaranteeing security in the protection of their workers’ personal data.
In turn, the president of the Private Central Bureau of Credit Information, Adriana Dias, who was speaking during the workshop on data, referred that data protection brings more advantages than disadvantages.
Among the advantages of data protection, the businesswoman mentioned the ease that companies and individuals have in accessing credit – which can improve the living conditions of families, thus maximizing the number of small and large entrepreneurs, as well as accelerating formalization of the informal economy.
He also spoke of the need to educate, transform and acculturate people and companies to treat other people’s data with privacy.
For him, investing in data protection also extends the safeguard of the good business environment in the country and, consequently, economic development, putting an end to the bad loans that have been the “Achilles heel” between banks and customers.
He added that they currently control more than five companies providing data subscribers ranging from banking to telecommunications, but aim to control or reach 20 million customers in the database by 2028.
The Private Central Bureau of Credit Information is a company licensed by the data protection agency (APD) to manage an extensive database that may include all relevant history of Angolan consumers.
The main objective of the Central Bureau is to analyze consumption habits and, consequently, to improve decisions in granting credit by all companies operating in the Angolan market.
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