The Dominican Society of Dailies (SDD) is examining the ambiguities in the new law that created the National Intelligence Bureau (DNI) and the National Intelligence System (SIN), grouping all investigative agencies of the state.
The Executive Branch recently enacted by Law 1-24 that creates the National Intelligence Bureau and the National Intelligence System (SIN), subject to the President of the Republic.
Art. 44 of the Constitution establishes:
Respect and non-interference in the private and family life, home and correspondence of the individual are guaranteed. The right to honor, a good name and one’s own image is recognized. Any authority or individual that violates them is obliged to compensate or repair them by the law.
One of the most controversial articles in the newly passed National Intelligence Bureau (DNI) is Art. 11, which obliges “all state agencies, private institutions or natural persons, without prejudice to the legal formalities for the protection and guarantee of the right to privacy and personal honor, to deliver all information to the DNI that it requires.”
The law publishes those who do not relinquish the information the agency requires with imprisonment of two to three years and fines from 9 to 15 minimum wages in the public sector.
The Dominican Association of Banks has also expressed concern over the new intelligence division.
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17 January 2024