Paris (AFP)
The Ministry of Public Accounts assured Tuesday that he intended to "provide all guarantees" of privacy, the day after a reserved opinion of the CNIL on its project to collect data on social networks to detect fraud tax.
The 2020 Finance Bill plans to experiment for three years within the tax and customs administration the collection and exploitation of freely accessible data on social networks and digital platforms (eg Facebook, Le Bon Coin, Twitter, etc.).
"The public data collected will be destroyed within 30 days if they are not likely to contribute to the identification of serious defaults or within one year if they have not given rise to the opening of no tax, customs or criminal procedure, "the ministry said in a statement.
In an opinion issued on September 12 but made public only Monday, the National Commission for Informatics and Liberties had expressed reservations on this project, arguing that it was "likely to undermine the freedom of opinion and expression "of the persons concerned.
Constable of personal data asked the legislator to accompany this device with "strong guarantees", while saying "reserved for (its) efficiency as well as (its) technical feasibility".
In addition to the measures on the period of detention of the data, "only a very small number of authorized agents of the tax and customs administrations will be able to implement" the techniques envisaged in the experimentation, again pleaded Bercy.
The ministry defends its project which it conceives as a response "to the evolutions of the society" and the "limits of our current detection systems".
The conditions of implementation will be detailed in a decree that "will be submitted for opinion to the CNIL" and the government promises to submit a report to Parliament "six months before the end of this experiment, to draw the balance sheet," adds -t it.
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