The INAI warns of a ”serious” case

MEXICO CITY (El Universal).— The commissioners and the president commissioner of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) warned that the ex officio investigation they initiated for the disclosure of María’s personal data Amparo Casar, president of Mexicans against Corruption, will go to the final consequences.

In an interview with the media, they explained that the disclosure by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador when exposing the Márquez Padilla case, “is serious.”

They pointed out that the investigation has nothing to do with it being a case of corruption.

“We have already started this investigation. Because? Because there were elements, precisely, or there are elements, since the publication, obviously on the official website of www.gob.mx

“It is not that Inai is contradicting its resolutions. There is an article in the Federal Transparency Law itself, in the General Law, which establishes that information that is related to acts of corruption is not considered reserved information.

“In principle, all this information is public; However, personal data or confidential information must also be protected,” explained the president commissioner of Inai, Adrián Alcalá Méndez.

He explained that what is done in the ex officio investigation is a test of public interest, to determine whether public interest or confidentiality is more valuable.

“While it is true that information related to cases of corruption is, in principle, public, there are also duties and principles that must be maintained, such as confidential information,” he stressed.

“In that sense, it is not that we are fighting with each other, that by opening this investigation ex officio we are fighting or contradicting our resolution. The only way in which a right, a personal data that is also a fundamental right, can be weighed against this issue of corruption is the power that we exercise as guarantor organizations when we are analyzing a particular case and that we apply a public interest test. “Alcalá insisted.

Commissioner Norma Julieta del Río regretted that the leaking of personal information is becoming a daily occurrence in the National Palace. “It is a situation that is already happening daily. That’s the trouble. It is already very easy to violate data.”

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“This morning the President said that, in some resolution, we declassified the data. What happens is that one thing is a complaint, whether in civil or criminal matters, that is not our job, of course; but the exposure of personal data is. So, the violation existed and is very serious. And the most serious thing is that it is already being done in a common way,” he declared.

Commissioner Josefina Román Vergara pointed out that as part of the investigation procedure, a second stage is planned, which is a verification procedure, a type of audit, which is applied over 50 days.

“And, the last stage, in the case of public servants, what we have to do is put together the file perfectly and send it to the Internal Control Body to begin the procedure established by the Administrative Responsibility law. “We are very serious about strictly applying what the law establishes and, in this case as in any other, we are going to conclude the procedures,” he indicated.