Overview
- The preliminary roll let anyone enter a DNI to view a voter's age and exact home address, triggering security concerns over misuse.
- Reniec cites the amended Electoral Law and has tightened access by cutting query sessions from ten to one minute and keeping the roll online for the legally required five days before removing it today.
- Law 32264, approved by Congress and promulgated in March, added domicile and a fingerprint photo to the voter roll’s fields.
- The National Data Protection Authority launched an ex officio review and the Comptroller opened an inquiry, while citizens may file tutela or administrative complaints that could lead to corrective orders or sanctions.
- Specialists warn the data could enable identity theft, extortion, digital fraud, and political targeting, and copies may persist in outside databases even after the site is taken down.