Morena and allies impose reform package, grant greater access to personal data

In less than 10 days, the legislative blocs of Morena, the Workers' Party (PT), and the PVEM (PVEM) crushed the opposition and approved, on fast track, a package of seven reforms that will serve as a security and telecommunications strategy, granting the government the power to intercept communications and access biometric, vehicle, and telephone data, as well as bank and public property records.

It also establishes rules to pressure the 32 states to strengthen their security strategies and conditions their commitment to this in order to obtain federal funds. It empowers the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) to investigate the use of service or credit cards, and establishes that the National Guard (GN) will be a security force comprised of military personnel.

The Undersecretariat of Police Intelligence and Investigation, the National Intelligence Center (CNI), and the Central Intelligence Platform are also created under the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC). These platforms must begin operations no later than 180 business days after the law comes into effect.

In parallel, electoral reform is already being prepared, which will be a priority at the start of the ordinary session next September.

The National Intelligence and Investigation System Law was the most criticized by the opposition. This is a law that grants the SSPC and the National Guard access to personal and biometric databases held by the federal government and private entities. for intelligence tasks. With this, the SSPC will coordinate the National Security System and may request information from other state institutions to identify and clarify acts that may constitute crimes, especially high-impact crimes, and may request information from individuals.

You will have access to vehicle and license plate data, biometric and telephone records, public property and commercial records, legal entity records, land registries, tax records, firearms records, seized or confiscated weapons records, commercial records, and records of private security service providers.

Also, to "registers of detained and sentenced persons, Records of financial, banking, transportation, health, telecommunications, business, commercial, and maritime services , and all those from which they can extract clues, data and information for the generation of intelligence products."

The reform establishes that the CNI "may access, directly or through the platform, all information that the Ministry of the Interior (Segob) integrates, stores, generates, compiles, systematizes, or processes."