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Justice prohibits Oi to share Velox user data

18/03/2015

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According to MPF, operator yielded information providers who pressed consumers to hire and made unauthorized charges
Oi: in the fourth quarter, costs and operating expenses decreased 23.8% compared to the same period last year - Dado Galdieri / Bloomberg

RIO - Complaints of unauthorized charges made by Terra Network, after the signing of Hi Velox, by consumers in Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, motivated the action of the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) which resulted in setença prohibiting the operator to share information from your Internet service customers. The setença confirmed by the Federal Court (TRF3) points out that the registration data sharing is illegal, especially the value of service providers adicionacionado such as content providers, if the earth.

The decision on injunction, the Court held, also requires the company to enhance the security of access to databases of customers and provides daily fine of $ 5000 in case of leakage.

Sought to Hi comendar said no processes in place. In court, according to MPF information, the operator claimed to have been third-party action victim in the leak of information. In the assessment of regional sought the Republic of the 3rd Region, Alice Kanaan, however, there is evidence of data sharing by the company. The promoter of opinion was ratified by the sentence of the 3rd Panel of TRF3 that given the fact see flagrant breach of the duty of confidentiality, since there is no explicit user permission to transfer your data to companies providing content.

Of customer data held, the content providers, the, especially Terra Networks and UOL, according to reports cleared by the MPF, persistently linked to the new client Hi Velox, informing him that to have internet access would require the hiring of
services.



Source: The Globe

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