• On Twitter, parents of students are worried about having received a consent form to authorize schools to perform a PCR saliva test on their offspring.

  • As proof, they relay the document that would have been distributed to them and which feeds some concerns about the processing of personal data, in particular.

  • This document is authentic, but parental consent remains optional. 

"My child came back with that this noon", "This is what one of my children brings back to me and that many parents received on the parental consent form for a saliva test with photocopy of the vital card!"

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On Twitter, several Internet users relay the same document, which they deem worrying: an "information and consent form for carrying out a screening examination for Covid-19 using saliva sample tests for a minor".

On this document, accompanied by the government logo, parents are offered to give their consent, for the entire current school year, to the screening of their child by PCR saliva test.

It must be accompanied by a "copy of the Vitale card or a copy of the certificate of social security rights".

Here is what one of my children brings me back and that many parents received on the form of consent of the parents for a saliva test with photocopy of the vital card!

The reality is to save the data in the SI-DEP files # Refusons🇫🇷👊🇫🇷 pic.twitter.com/gNoMY1ShWs

- FREEDOM (@GaumontRene) May 3, 2021

"The reality is [that this form aims to] record the data in SI-DEP", warns one of these Internet users, referring to the national file for monitoring Covid-19 detection tests, mentioned in at the end of the document: “The data concerning your child are collected as part of this biological examination […] are recorded in […] SI-DEP.

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This form is well distributed in schools, as confirmed by the Ministry of National Education at

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, which however underlines its optional character.

: "As with nasopharyngeal tests, saliva tests are offered in schools on a voluntary basis with parental authorization, in order to identify any positive cases as quickly as possible, to break them down as quickly as possible. chains of contamination and thus provide an additional tool for securing the school environment.

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As the Servicepublic.fr site reminds us, these tests have been "organized randomly and repeatedly" since "the return of winter holidays" with the objective "of testing 300,000 children per week.

"The saliva tests are reserved in priority for the pupils of the nursery and elementary schools, for whom the nasopharyngeal samples can be more difficult", further specifies the site of the French administration.

Data kept for three months

The data recorded in SI-DEP are subject to anonymization, as recalled by Public Health France: “This database contains pseudonymized data concerning the patient (age, sex, place of residence) and the test (date of sample, result) […].

A person is defined using a unique anonymity code in SI-DEP which allows us to trace their history and to be able to count the number of tests carried out.

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In addition - and as specified in the form given to parents - this data is kept for a maximum of three months before being deleted.

After having estimated, in a first opinion issued in September 2020, that "the systems put in place in the context of the health crisis (SI-DEP and Contact Covid files, Stopcovid application) are, for the most part, respectful of personal data ", The National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil) welcomed, at the end of January 2021, that its remarks had been taken into account, which led it to note" a satisfactory level of compliance with regard to compliance with data retention periods ”.

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