A CNDP-DGSN working group has been set up to study the elements of personal data protection linked to this application deployed among field security officers, who, through the checkpoints, ensure that citizens comply with the containment provisions in order to preserve collective health, said a statement by the Commission.

According to the conclusions of this working group, the purpose is the reliability of compliance with containment (regulated by Decree-Law No. 2.20.292, Decree No. 2.20.293, Decree No. 2.20.330), as well as the lawfulness of the collection and processing is based on the performance of a mission of public interest (Article 4 of Law 09-08).

 The group also noted that the data collected are minimal in relation to the purpose and that the impact of the processing operation on privacy is also minimal in relation to the purpose of ensuring compliance with the containment measures to safeguard the collective health of citizens, all the more so if the proportionality of the processing is respected.

 No data is recorded on the mobiles of the security agents, according to the conclusions of the working group, which explains that the collected data is destroyed, on a weekly basis, so that it is no longer accessible from the mobiles of the security agents, and definitively, from the system, at the end of the state of health emergency, the statement concluded.