JAKARTA – The government is currently discussing the regulation of the draft Personal Data Protection Act (RUU PDP). One of the points discussed is related to scope big data collected and managed by the government.
Reflecting on the recent data theft incidents, such as the leak of 91 million Tokopedia accounts and the KreditPlus fintech hack. It makes some people worry, if the information data is used by certain people.
Social media activist Rudi Valinka said, big data will be one of the strategic keys that politicians can use to win in the 2020 Regional Head General Election (Pilkada). Especially with limited space during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Social media will be one of the most important instruments in conveying the campaign messages of all candidate pairs,” said the owner of Twitter account @Kurawa to VOI, Tuesday, August 1.
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Rudi who was also present in the discussion VOI which was held at the Greenhouse Coworking and Office Space, Friday, August 28, assessed that the management of big data will play an important role not only for socio-economy, but also for politics. Including deadly weapons to knock down opponents.
“Unfortunately, social media will also have the potential to become the main” weapon “of attack, both character assassination, disclosure of family identity and other matters related to the dislike of a candidate pair,” he explained.
He encouraged the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) to intervene directly in protecting the digital space of Indonesian society. Because he saw, the monitoring function of Kominfo began to decrease.
Moreover, legal products issued by Kominfo often fail to be popular and are actually frightening for netizens. For example, the Information and Electronic Transactions Law (UU ITE) has now turned into a rubber article to ensnare netizens.
“I see that the function of communication and information technology has long been taken over by law enforcement officials,” added the owner of the account with 344 thousand followers.
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