Representative of "Communications" to Parliament: We aim to transform Egypt into a world digital data corridor

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The Committee on Communications and Information Technology in the House of Representatives, headed by MP Ahmed Badawi, postponed the resolution of Article (35), which was created in Chapter Fourteen of the crimes and penalties in the draft law of the government to protect personal data, which states that it is not permissible to raise or initiate criminal proceedings except at the request of the Executive President of the Center Protection of personal data in any of the crimes stipulated in the law.

The postponement of the resolution of Article (35) at the request of the representative of the Ministry of Interior, Major General Ashraf Lashin, for further study and review.

For his part, Mohamed Hijazi, Chairman of the Legislation and Legislation Committee at the Ministry of Communications, said that the CITC, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, in light of the hearings held by the committee for representatives of international companies on the draft law on the protection of personal data, Article (35) On the request of the Chief Executive of the Center for the Protection of Personal Data, following: If the criminal action of the prosecution moves, we will find there are thousands of complaints immediately after the issuance of the law to each of the injured sending a promotional message to him, and we know well that there are professional people compensation cases, and we will burden the judiciary and destinations Law enforcement.

Hijazi said that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said more than once about targeting Egypt's transformation into a world digital data corridor. The Ministry of Communications is working in this regard to be the source of attracting and hosting the largest data centers giant, pointing out that this trend requires legislation on the ground , And the cornerstone of the Personal Data Protection Act.

Hijazi added that all the international legislations regarding the protection of personal data do not have penalties for freedoms. However, because the Egyptian legislation includes penalties for freedoms, we have limited this to the crimes of violating personal data across borders, or with regard to sensitive data.

The committee, during its meeting today, witnessed the demand of the representative of the Minister of Interior, Ahmed Abdel Hafiz, to delay the dissolution of the article until its study, saying: "We are subject to the text of the article, and when we object to some texts is in favor of maintaining national security and do not ask us advantage as devices.

Maj. Gen. Ashraf Lashin, the representative of the Ministry of the Interior, said: "As long as there is an updated material, it must be presented to us and we should not be surprised by it, especially as it is presented in the name of the whole government,"He said.

Ahmed Badawi, head of the committee, insisted that the committee had no goals other than to protect national security.

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