Rabat – The National Committee for Monitoring the Protection of Personal Data (CNDP) has called on all parties to respect the requirements of Moroccan law relating to the protection of personal data during the electoral campaign.
In a press release published this Thursday, September 2, the institution announces the launch of “control operations with the actors concerned with the treatments related to political communication.”
The actors concerned are required to comply with law No. 08.09, on the protection of personal data and the “immediate suspension of any treatment not notified to its services.
Within the same press release, the CNDP indicated that it had written to the various political parties represented in parliament, on July 16, 2020, as well as to most representative unions, on September 30, 2020.
A series of meetings were held at the headquarters of the national committee with the bodies that responded to the invitation, starting from July 22, 2020,
For the regulator, the subject is nothing new. It has already been the subject of deliberation in 2015.
It concerned the “processing of personal data implemented by political parties, their unions or alliances, professional and trade union organizations, elected officials or candidates for elected office for political communication purposes.”
This same decision, the CNDP recalls, provides for “the obligation to notify the processing relating to political communication to its services”.
More recently, the regulating entity sent letters to the political parties represented in parliament as well as the most representative trade unions, to “invite them to meetings held at the CNDP headquarters from July 22, 2020.”
“It was proposed to the entities that responded to this invitation, an accompaniment for their compliance with the provisions of Law No. 09-08 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data.”
During the election campaign period, the CNDP received a number of complaints about the use of text messages by certain political parties.
The CNDP has also noted the emergence of some posts on social networks and press articles relating to this subject.
The CNDP then announced the activation of control operations with the actors concerned by the treatments related to political communication, concludes the statement.
