The nursing student who has publicly denounced her roommates for wanting to kick her out after her positive for Covid-19 would have invaded data protection, according to several experts consulted.

The key is in the personal audios that have gone viral on the social network

and that allow the identification of these people.

The social scandal caused by the public denunciation of Elena Cañizares, a young student whom her roommates have wanted to kick out after being positive for coronavirus,

violates the data protection law

.

And is that the young woman publicly denounced what happened by showing WhatsApp messages with her partners, in which she includes audios.

The key is that, with the data provided by the student, it is possible to identify her roommates.

In fact, some have already been harassed by various people who have managed to find them.

"Two rights affected"

"Two rights may be affected,

that of privacy and, the easiest to identify, that of data protection,

" jurist Samuel Parra, a specialist in data protection, told Servimedia.

And it is that "the regulations protect any information related

to individuals, which can be photographs, videos, texts or any identification code such

as a telephone number and, specifically, the voice," he explained.

If these messages only included snapshots of the conversation, it would not violate the law, since the names

under which the implicated kept the contacts of her roommates would

not, by themselves, allow to identify these people.

The problem is that it includes the audios with their voices unaltered, leading to a possible identification.

"It is not legal"

"This is not legal, the conversations we have

with others

cannot be broadcast

without their consent on a social network,

" added Parra.

In fact, "there are already sanctions from the Spanish Data Protection Agency for posting videos on YouTube without the consent of those people," he said.

The Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has not yet ruled on the matter, but sources from the institution recognized

that the dissemination of audios could make a difference in what happened

.

Repentance and fine?

At the moment, the user who spread the messages with the roommates who wanted to throw her

has already deleted the content, which already had hundreds of thousands of interactions

and which some media have echoed.

Although he has deleted it, in Parra's opinion

"the damage has already been done"

and the deletion can only imply a "regret", but "the broadcast is already done" and "everyone has listened to the audios."

Various sources consulted by this agency agreed that

the violation of data protection can be sanctioned with fines of between zero and 20 million euros.

However, this extreme is not at all common and these issues are usually settled with the warning of the AEPD or with sanctions that range between two thousand and three thousand euros.

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