Citizens whose personal data were misused to support certain presidential candidates literally turn to us every day. I don't have a precise number, but it is about several hundreds of those who contacted us, said Biljana Papović, deputy executive director of the Center for Democratic Transition.
She also stated that this shows that people have realized that their personal data has been misused and that they want responsibility to be determined.
Papović believes that the State Election Commission (SEC) is unable to verify the identity of the handwriting and the signatures themselves.
"However, I have to say that during this election process, the SEC took an unexpected step back in terms of transparency and for us as observers in the cooperation that the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data (AZLP) prohibited the inspection of signature verification. So that process of signature verification it didn't take place in an adequate way," she says.
He emphasizes that because of this, they suspected that this joint action was covering up fraud that existed during the collection of signatures for presidential candidates.
"And, the appearance of the application proved that something might not have been right in that procedure and that there was malice on the part of political entities," Papović added.
Radenko Lacmanović, an expert on the protection of personal data, says that it should be expected that the Prosecutor's Office will react quickly.
"I would agree that there are shortcomings in the work of the SEC and the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data, but in this case I have a slightly different approach than Biljana Papović, first of all, because I would say that the legal solutions here are bad. In the law, we have a provision that a citizen liable for a misdemeanor - from 500 to 2.000 euros - if he signs two or more sheets. However, we do not have sanctions in the laws for those who misuse, or rather forge, that signature," Lacamanović pointed out.
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