ZACATECAS. He National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) has received so far 26 complaints formalities for the leaking of personal data of more than 300 journalists covering the president’s conferences Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Norma Julieta del Río Venegas, commissioner of the Inaireported that they address these complaints, and announced that the organism research autonomous will not last more than 50 days, since the regulation establishes this period to issue an opinion.
He recalled that the Transparency Unit of the Presidency of the Republic informed the Inai, that the data leak was caused by a hacking from an IP address located in Spain.
In this regard, he considered that the official version “is not an evidentiary indication”, so the INAI He is not going to go with that theory, nor with the report sent by the Presidency, “the institute assumes it, knows it, but will determine what is appropriate based on its own investigations.”
At the end of last month, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated that the personal information of more than 300 journalists from Mexico who cover the morning conference were leaked illegally, after the Presidency computers were hacked.
On January 26, the organization Article 19 indicated that the database allegedly collects the accreditations of those who attend to the morning lectures of the federal government.
The organization expressed its concern about this leak, because our country is one of the most lethal for those who carry out the crime. journalism.
“It is of particular concern that the leaked information is from those who attend the morning, a space where journalists have warned about persecutions and threats. In this context, the safeguarding of their personal information It is essentially a matter of protection of their physical integrity,” Article 19 published on their social networks.
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The organization indicated that it corroborated with various sources the dissemination of said personal data of journalists who allegedly attend the morning conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
That same day the Inai announced that it would investigate the leak due to a possible rape to the protection of personal information of the journalists who cover those press conferences.