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The confidentiality of information such as address, telephone and CPF is guaranteed by the Code of Consumer Protection and the Federal Constitution, but do not respect that.
 
It was a routine search on Google that the administrator Edmar Gervásio discovered that all their registration information was available on the Internet - including CPF, RG, address and even the number of your cellular phone. "It took me a fright. And besides my name, there are data from several other people, "says Gervásio. The data are stored on a site - it seems that promotion - the carmaker Renault, the administrator of who bought a vehicle in July 2007. Along with the Gervásio are the information of other 2 thousand customers of assembly, according to a search performed on Google in late January.
Disclosure of registration information, according to lawyer and law teacher in the consumer Loyola Ana Cláudia da Rocha, is against the Consumer Defense Code, which stipulates in its Article 43 that the opening of registration must be communicated in writing to the customer. "If you must allow for open, you have to allow to spread." Ana Cláudia recalls that the Federal Constitution itself provides in its Article 5, which is the inviolable privacy and intimacy of persons, and ensure compensation for damage in cases like that. "If the consumer was not consulted about the disclosure of their data, it is a legal measure to suspend the display and even an indemnity for any damage that may have been caused."

The Trustee intends to carry out the suggestion of the lawyer. To find that their data were on the Internet, Gervásio came into contact with the assembly and opened a protocol calling for the removal of information, but nothing was done. "They said they would immediately see, but the data are still there." It was only after the contact of the Gazette's report that the assembly of the people withdrew from the consumer information air - although you can still find the other 400 customers in the page google.

"I come with a case against them, because I think it is a tremendous irresponsibility. It was so simple, I spent all the details and they did nothing. "The report asked the manufacturer for clarification on the data that had been placed on the Internet, and if the client had authorized the disclosure, but there was no response until the closing this edition.

Note
Read below the full text of articles dealing with the secrecy of data records in the country:

Consumer Defense Code

Article 43: The consumer [...] will have access to information in existing entries, bookmarks, records and personal data and consumer filed on him, as well as their sources.

Paragraph 2 The opening of registration, plug, record and use personal data and should be communicated in writing to the consumer, when not requested by him.

Federal Constitution

Article 5: All are equal before the law, without distinction of any kind, ensuring it to Brazilians and foreigners residing in the country the inviolability of the right to life, liberty, equality, safety and property, as follows:

X - is the inviolable intimacy, private life, honor and image of the people, the right to compensation for material or moral damage arising from your violation.



Source: Gazeta do Povo

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