The State Commissioner Inspectorate of Data Protection has conducted a contest “Spinter Research” on more than 1.000 lithuanian residents at the end of 2020 and has concluded that the public is worried about the data protection and the forgiveness for transgressors in this sector is falling.
STUDENTS ARE MUCH MORE VULNERABLES
According to the contest, the 73% of lithuanian population is aware of the juridical act which protects human rights and establishes the obligations of organizations about personal data protection (hereinafter – GDPR). This percentage is still fixed for the third year in succession. Managers, experts and employees are more informed and students have less heard about GDPR.
The analysis of the contest underlines that the participants with higher incomes and instructions have more familiarity with the GDPR.
“A higher level of awareness of personal data protection and a knowledge of principle connected in this sector is the aim of the Supervisory Authority. With this new turning point into the digitization processes of the society in front of a pandemic period, is still more relevant. Obviously, the contest underlines the importance of taking care of youth and their rights to personal data protection” – says Raimondas Andrijauskas, Director of the State Data Protection Inspectorate.
PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION AND FINGERPRINTS.
Residents are sensitive to privacy.
The number of personal identification and fingerprints are extremely private data for 9 out 10 residents.
Privacy, income, face image, home address and, to a lesser extent, the telephone number and information about the position are included into the privacy. Managers and housewives have the highest demand for privacy.
POLICE
The majority of lithuanian population (83%) is still worried about who is processing their personal data, why and how. Anyway, the majority of them trust in the public sector bodies like the police, STI and SODRA, which correctly process their personal data. Also banks are reliable. Private sector organizations (telecommunication societies, commercials and rapid credit companies) have less trust in interviewed.
During the 2020 trust in traders, training and health structures have decreased opposite to banks one which has increased. It is probable that a decrease of the confidentiality can be connected to the COVID-19 situation, in which the step toward the offering of training remote services must face with a series of questions about personal data processing.
For this reason, one-fifth (18%) of the lithuanian population think that caused by the pandemic period, the requirements for the personal data processing are less respected.
THE REDUCTION
About a 13% of the lithuanian population affirm to deal with the illicit personal data processing in the last years. The contest shows that when faced with a breach, more than half of the population (54%) would not only like the offender (company or institution) to be corrected, but also punished. Compared to 2019, the contest results (36%) show that public forgiveness for violators is decreasing. However, residents do not always turn to the State Data Protection Inspectorate to defend their right to personal data protection, although as many as 65% of Lithuanians are aware of the supervisory authority – the State Data Protection Inspectorate – and 57% of respondents protect their rights.