Proposals Doria to technology can be threats to the right … – Folha de Pernambuco

The mayor-elect of São Paulo, João Doria, won the election with 53,29% of the valid votesPhoto: Rovena Pink/Agência Brasil

the proposals of The mayor-elect of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB), focused on the technology and the creation of a “smart city” can become threats to the privacy of citizens.

according To experts, ideas how to collect massive data, card unique identification and electronic medical records gather information commercially attractive, which can draw attention of criminals. There is still the risk that a simple carelessness to generate leakage of the contents, and bring the damage to civil society. Therefore, the care of the security need special attention.

To Ronaldo Lemos, a lawyer had with one of the main responsible for the Marco Civil da Internet and a columnist for the Folha de S. Paulo, “it would be a temerity to go ahead with these measures without a privacy policy that clearly states what can be done with the data of citizens and that can’t be done with them.”

The professor of law in the digital Mackenzie, Renato Leite, says that these ideas of management John Doria are focused only on ensuring efficiency in the delivery of public services. “At no time mention the need, also, to guarantee the right to privacy and to the protection of citizens’ personal data,” he says.

according To Daniel Annenberg, author of the campaign proposals of Doria linked to the “smart city” and was chosen to be secretary of Technology of the mayor-elect, privacy is fundamental and will be covered in the next municipal management. “Our priority is being the issue of services to citizen services. But the issue of privacy is fundamental and will be addressed with certainty, because we don’t want to expose people.”

According to the future secretary, will be used models of several cities of the world, among them New York and Chicago, in the United States, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In practice, a leak in the base of the card, the unique identification could lead to fraud, and to expose intimate information of citizens. The idea, according to Annenberg, is that the card, always with the privacy preserved, include information, such as personal documents, information on housing, medical information and school records.

In July, the Leaf has discovered an information leak in the City of São Paulo that may have exposed up to 650 thousand people, mainly pregnant women who passed through the public health network. With the data provided -a social security number, full name, address, telephone number, – according to experts, the victims would be vulnerable to attacks, such as identity theft.

“it Is important to have an authentication mechanism that is effective, or, it should ensure that that person is really the person who owns the document,” says Willian Caprino, information security specialist.

Caprino cites the importance of providing how to deal with exception situations, such as cases in which the citizen lost the card or that the identification mechanism is damaged. “How to avoid a fraud when the system is weakened?”, ponder.

it Would also be necessary to establish strict protocols for access to information of citizens, according to experts. To restrict who could get to the information and in specific time periods, when the access to the history of a patient to be really necessary. This aligned to a high level of security.

Big data
To collect data in bulk -in this case, to integrate multiple databases with a large number of information, known in the area of technology as “big data”- is intended to analyze the information so as to guide public policies.

With this kind of intelligence, it is possible to better understand the trends of mobility in São Paulo, such as which bus lines have a greater need for vehicles and what times. A work in this direction is already done, but the management of Doria promises greater integration between systems, including those of the State.

“Think of an agenda of integration is something positive? Without a doubt. The problem lies in the how,” says the professor of law at the FGV-SP (Fundação Getulio Vargas), Alexandre Pacheco da Silva.

To the experts, to do this type of work is important to anonymise the data -it is not necessary to store information related specifically to each citizen, linked to its identity.

As the purpose is to assess the trend, simply store information such as the number of people who take the bus line at each time, without connecting to a particular name. This would bring security, because even in case of a leak, no one would be compromised directly.

medical Information are particularly sensitive. “[Medical data] must, at a minimum, be encrypted end-to-end,” says the professor of the right digital Renato Milk, referring to a safety technique that prevents that information intercepted can be read, the same used in instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp.

The proposed Doria envisage the possibility of payment for public transport using mobile service, by means of systems owned by private companies, such as Samsung Pay, Android Pay and Apple Pay. In this case, it would be important to establish a relationship with the companies not to use the private data of users for commercial purposes.

“The citizen would be authorizing their data for the purposes of payment of your public transport, and not for other business purposes,” says Milk.