Another user, Denny Siregar, who has more than a million followers, said: "Our data protection is very low. "We hope that relevant authorities can conduct certain procedures to prevent similar incidents from happening, including the protection of the people's data," he said. A data protection bill was submitted to parliament last year but has yet to be passed. "The problem is still the same, there is no grand strategy to protect citizen data," said Damar Juniarto of digital advocacy group SAFEnet. "With good privacy standards and design, there should be limits on being able to check other people's data, let alone the president's."

Source: bd News24 September 03, 2021 10:07 UTC