Expatriate Greeks despatched a “fireplace” letter to the European Individuals’s Celebration (EPP) relating to the “Asimakopoulou” scandal and the leak of their private information. In accordance with unique info from documentonews.gr, the letter, which was shared with the president of the EPP, Manfred Weber and different high-ranking officers of the social gathering, describes intimately how their private information was leaked, whereas they emphasize that they’ve already appealed to the Greek Court docket of Justice and the Nationwide Authority for the Safety of Private Knowledge requesting justification.
Additionally, the expatriates level out that Ms. Asimakopoulou “within the e-mail message she despatched them makes use of the distinctive title of the EPP” the place it belongs, whereas “the private information was transmitted to 3rd events who occur to be social gathering officers of your individual political household”. As well as, they specific their concern about “who else can have the private information” and probably “use it” and ask the EPP what it’ll do to “defend their particular person rights”.
Learn intimately the letter revealed solely by documentonews.gr:
“Pricey gents,
All of us are Greek residents, residents overseas and we submitted an Software for Registration within the Particular Electoral Lists of International Voters of the Elections Directorate of the Ministry of the Inside with a view to train our proper to vote within the Nationwide Elections, European Elections and Referendums. Throughout the registration course of, the voter declares a sound private e-mail tackle by means of which he’ll talk with the Ministry of the Inside.
With a purpose to full our registration within the electoral rolls and to train our constitutionally assured proper, we must give our consent to the Ministry of the Inside to course of our private information solely for the aim of registering us within the particular international electoral rolls. We now have all given this consent solely for this goal.
We subsequently transmitted our particular private information, one in all which was their electronic mail tackle, solely for the aim of collaborating within the electoral rolls as Greek residents residing overseas and we consented to their processing for this goal solely. All of us obtained a affirmation e-mail relating to our registration within the electoral roll from the competent service of the Ministry of the Inside (Directorate of Elections).
We level out that the electoral course of wherein we’re going to take part doesn’t solely concern the election of our representatives within the Nationwide Parliament but in addition the electoral course of for the choice of our representatives within the European Parliament. Nonetheless, on March 1, 2024, we obtained an electronic mail message from a Greek MEP, who was elected with the New Democracy social gathering within the European elections held in 2019 and a member of the Eurogroup of the European Individuals’s Celebration, who used the e-mail tackle that we had despatched EXCLUSIVELY AND ONLY to the Ministry of the Inside for the aim of our registration within the electoral rolls. None of us had despatched his electronic mail tackle to the Greek MEP, nor any of the private information required to register on the Ministry of International Affairs platform. The sensation of marvel after we obtained the e-mail message from the MEP became intense irritation after which, once we discovered precisely what occurred, into worry, insecurity and uncertainty.
Our unfavourable emotions intensified once we watched the occasions under: at first the Knowledge Controller, i.e. the Ministry of Inside Affairs – with a press release from the accountable Minister – denied the existence of the leak of our private information to the MEP, that’s, he denied the apparent truth. Later and after the preliminary refusal with an official announcement by the workplace of the Ministry of International Affairs, the Secretary Basic of the Ministry of International Affairs was dismissed in addition to the Head of the Hellenism Expatriate Division of the New Democracy to which the MEP in query additionally belongs.
We repeat that each one of us voluntarily gave our private information for the only real goal of being registered within the electoral rolls of expatriate Greeks, in order that we may participate within the nationwide and European elections with out transferring from the nations wherein we stay, examine and work, and consequently of the unlawful habits of the Ministry of Inside Affairs, we obtained messages of political content material from a Greek MEP!!
In its response to a request for entry to our private information, the Ministry of Inside Affairs and Communications knowledgeable us that particular private information, together with the e-mail tackle, can’t be legally processed past the aim for which it was transmitted. Consequently, the Ministry of Inside Affairs for the primary time admitted its illegality after which we witnessed an unprecedented episode: The Director of the Ministry of Inside, particularly the director of elections, filed a criticism with the prosecuting authorities that his workplace on the Ministry of Inside Affairs was breached. A number of hours later in an examination earlier than the Nationwide Authority for the Safety of Private Knowledge we realized from reviews that social gathering officers of the ruling social gathering testified that they obtained our private information from different social gathering officers whom they didn’t title. We remind you that within the entry request we submitted to the Greek MEP, she had named a selected social gathering govt of the ruling social gathering. All these unlawful actions had been carried out at a cut-off date shortly earlier than the European elections and in violation not solely of the Greek Structure but in addition of European Laws.
All of those unlawful actions violated the GDPR in addition to our proper to safe communications and defend our privateness. That’s, we have no idea who else can have our private information and for what cause they’ll use it.
The EPP is the most important parliamentary group of the E.Okay. It’s the parliamentary group trusted by tens of millions of European residents. She was additionally trusted to contribute to the protection of European values. Within the e-mail message she despatched us, the Greek MEP makes use of the distinctive title of your social gathering, to which group she belongs, and our private information was handed on to 3rd events who occur to be social gathering officers of your individual political household.
We now have appealed to the Greek justice and the Nationwide Authority for the safety of non-public information. As European residents, nonetheless, we should inform the most important parliamentary group of the E.Okay. for the habits of its executives and for disregarding the rights of European residents. We ask you in your capability, as representatives of the European Individuals’s Celebration, a historic political physique for Greece and Europe, to tell us what actions you plan to take to contribute to the protection of our particular person rights.
Expatriate lawyer: What does the EPP intend to do?
documentonews.gr contacted lawyer Thomas Staikos, head of the regulation agency “Staykos and Companions” which has undertaken the authorized illustration of tons of of emigrants, submitting “class actions on the Administrative Court docket of First Occasion of Athens” and knowledgeable him concerning the emigrants’ letter to the EPP.
In his assertion, Mr. Staikos highlights the next traits:
“The Basic Knowledge Safety Regulation is a regulation that’s instantly and universally relevant as a result of it issues the person rights of EU residents. Subsequently, it’s of nice significance that those that institutionally cooperated in passing this essential regulation for our particular person rights, be told and to take a stand on this occasion that occurred in our nation. The EPP is the strongest parliamentary social gathering within the EU and a member of it violated the Regulation, making use of the actual fact that he’s a member of the EPP’s KO. This is essential and he should inform the European Residents what he intends to do about it.”
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