Identity theft is fashionable – TSF Online

It is becoming a more common crime, which is due to the large amount of photocopies and identity document scans, but also by exposure on social networks. Today marks the European Day of Data Protection.

Identity theft is an increasingly common crime. So says the National Commission Data Protection (NCDP), which warns of the “clear abuse in demanding photocopies or identity document scanning, as well as the disclosure of identification numbers on open networks, which requires a urgent intervention to protect citizens. ” The CNPD, these simple acts are generally illegal, but continue to proliferate, even in state services.

The DPA also warns that the massive dissemination of personal data, including the information document identification, “feeds the growing trend of identity theft”, as did the “violation of data protection rules by insufficient security measures, technical and organizational.”

This Thursday celebra- the European Day of Data Protection, which also marks the anniversary of the opening for signature of the Convention 108 of the Council of Europe on the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data.

But the risks are not limited to the transfer of identity documents or its distribution on open networks. There are also risks on social networks. The TSF spoke to the professor of computer engineering from the University of Coimbra, Mario Zenha Rela, which says that most people are not even concerned with protecting the data.

To Mario Zenha Rela, people are not concerned with the information you share on the Internet

Mario Zenha Rela argues that technology already offers effective tools, but many users of internet and mobile phones share personal information because it makes your life more comfortable.

The university teacher is concerned with the flight of the best brains

The professor believes that the state and businesses in Portugal are, in most cases, attentive to issue of computer security. There is, however, a threat resulting from the departure of many brains abroad.