Jose Antonio Peni Merinoholder Digital agency of transformation federal, rejected it with the new Telecommunications and broadcasting law The work is completed espionage Citizens, as the opposition claims.
In an interview Khoakin Lopez-Dorig for your space in Radio FormulaPeni Merino explained the aspects of this new legislation.
“This is a law that has a more social and much clearer feeling in terms of strengthening coverage, but this does not affect the business model of private operators. Since we are very happy, ”he said.
Real -time geolocation and phone intervention, only by order of the judge
The head of the Federal Agency of Digital Transformation explained that with only one Judicial order You can ask Telephone intervention Or ask Real -time geolocation User’s mobile phone.
“Yesterday I had the opportunity to go with the president in the morning to clarify both questions, but I was surprised after the debate at the plenary meeting, San Lazaro,” he said.
“In the event that they say that this is espionage, there is an article that is 183 from the new law on telecommunications (…), where it establishes that operators must cooperate with the security authorities, but this applies to the conditions of other laws,” he said.
“Another important law is the National Criminal Code, which says that when the prosecutor’s office considers the geographical location in the real term, the corresponding control judge may be requested.” He emphasized.
We did not transfer the comma (to the law). Imagine that the telecommunications law asked the operators to find a mobile phone without permission from the judge, you can’t even imagine. You must follow the procedure for the relationship between research, intelligence and justice, ”he emphasized.
There will be no phones that are not related to a person
Pepe Merino made it clear that there would be no cell phone chips that are not related to a person.
In addition, the official indicated that the data will be made by companies on cell phones, and not the federal government, as some critics claimed in recent days.
“First of all, there is no registration and much less in the hands of the government, this information, that is, users of mobile phones. This is what the operators will do, ”he said.
Listening rights are restored in the field of telecommunications
The federal official indicated that with the help of this law on telecommunications and broadcasting Audience rightsAnd he explained how this mechanism would work.
“How does this work? It is the hearings that represent the complaint in the media, and the media will be the defender of the hearings that will evaluate the complaint and transmit it in accordance with the corresponding environment, ”he explained.
“In his case, the new telecommunications regulator will be able to make a warning about the environment, which is a call for attention, what content is protected? Not discriminatory, with gender equality, children’s programming, which distinguishes advertising and content, very basic things, ”he said.
There is no action from the authorities that are subjected to censorship. They call it censorship, but this should give a voice to hearings so that they can present complaints and show disagreements that the media processes and investigated, as defined by the defender of the hearing, ”he said.
Peni Merino emphasized that the interests in this legislation consists in the fact that the rights to hearings are fulfilled: “No one is interested in reducing the content of the content.”
With information from López-Digo Digital
