The union will denounce that the City Council revealed names and telephone numbers of agents and the government says that it does not know of improper access
The UGT union announced yesterday that it will report the Cartagena City Council to the Spanish Data Protection Agency for “having exposed for months the names, surnames, private telephone numbers and more personal information of 290 Local Police officers” , as explained by the union delegate, José Juan González. The Councilor for Personnel and New Technologies, Esperanza Nieto, informed LA TRUTH that “there is no record of any improper access” to these personnel information bases, “which can only be entered with a password.” Nieto has requested a report from the Data Processing Center to clarify everything.
“This direct access has been available to anyone looking for an application called Cari at home and entering the phone book, without the need for codes,” González stressed. It is, he said, an information system that includes emails and corporate phone numbers of the vast majority of municipal employees and also council members, “said the union representative.
As Nieto said, you should only be able to enter this program with an electronic certificate validated by the City Council. But according to González, it is not known why an unencrypted backdoor existed. Before reporting it, UGT had news that some local police were receiving calls from people who did not have their number. That is why he looked for the sources of this possible data leak.
“The numbers of the agents appear to establish their availability to perform special services with extra hours of the Special Dedication Regime,” added the trade unionist. “Regardless of who the ruling is, Esperanza Nieto is ultimately responsible for this double lack of diligence, since she is the mayor of Personnel and New Technologies,” he concluded.
“It already happened in 2018”
It is not the first time, according to UGT, that something like this has happened. With the publication on the 2018 Police Memory Network, personal data was already included. At that time, the Councilor for Security and Personnel was Francisco Aznar.