By organizing competitions and conducting surveys
Companies collect personal data using fraudulent methods..and sell it to advertisers
Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif: “Some companies use fraudulent methods in collecting data, including conducting a questionnaire and requesting data from people.”
Companies assign employees to collect customer data.
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The legal advisor, Dr. Youssef Al-Sharif, warned against collecting personal data for individuals and customers, and selling it to others, for advertising and marketing purposes, and to achieve financial gains, noting that there are some companies that specialize in collecting personal data for individuals, such as their names, ages, what they like, and the type of car. What they own, their field of work, their accounts on social media, and other data that have become one of the most important tasks that companies seek, and allocate employees to collect.
Al-Sharif mentioned, in episodes broadcast by "Emirates Today" through its accounts on social media, to shed light on the newly issued laws, that some companies follow fraudulent methods in collecting data, including conducting a questionnaire and requesting data from people, claiming that they are private and not publishable, if they are not They want it, and then people discover that their data has been sold to others based on the interests they registered.
Others organize a competition to win a prize, and ask the participants to register their data, and in good faith individuals enter their data, which is then sold to others, pointing out that these companies deliberately such a procedure to collect data that they call "data", and thus sell it to companies and announced institutions, They take on each person’s data amounts ranging between 25 and 50 fils approximately, depending on the company and the competition in the market between them, pointing out that the advertised companies are only interested in this data and buy it, while some ask later, how did the advertiser access his personal data, and he knew everything about him ?!Al-Sharif pointed out that “what happened recently was when (Facebook) data was breached through a loophole, and (the hackers) were able to take the data of a large group of people, and they sold their data in the same way, but what concerns us a lot is the issue of clarifying the mechanism for collecting private data and personal information. In violation of the legislation in force in the country, especially the collection of data in any electronic way using information technology means, in order to preserve or process it, whether it is personal information belonging to citizens or residents of the country.
He pointed out that the individual can give his data to hospitals or clinics, which are duly licensed bodies to collect, take and process this data for medical purposes, such as standing up to the result of this collected data to determine the most prevalent diseases in a region.
He pointed out that the legislator decided in Article (13) of the Rumors Law a penalty of imprisonment and a fine of not less than 50 thousand dirhams, and not more than 500 thousand dirhams, or one of these two penalties, for anyone who collected and processed personal data of individuals.
Al-Sharif added, “Some may wonder about the compensation awarded to the person if he knows that his data was collected fraudulently, and sold to others?”, suggesting the existence of detailed laws and legal texts that guarantee the claim for compensation for many of the actions that we may be exposed to and harm us.
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