Spain: You can now check what data is held by which public entity

The Spanish General Secretariat for Digital recently introduced the Digital Citizen's Folder (Carpeta Ciudadana) initiative, aiming to enhance transparency, efficiency and ease of finding out what personal data is held in public administrations.

The Digital Citizen's Folder offers a single, unified access point from which you can know, access, share, and manage your personal details, held by various administration bodies.

The data is grouped into different areas: education and training, citizenship, labor and social benefits, health and social affairs, personal situation and family, vehicles and transport, household and transparency. The tool offers access to all your general, autonomous and local public entities files. For example, from the "Health and social affairs" section you can access your Digital Clinical History of the National Health System (HCDSNS) through a service that interoperates internally with the Autonomous Communities, writes The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) in a blog post announcing this tool.

Exercise your right of access with private organizations, too

While this initiative is great, public administrations are not the only ones that collect and process your sensitive data. In fact, you may be more aware of what personal information the public sector holds on you than the private companies behind platforms, apps and websites you use. Sometimes, deploying shadowy tactics, they gather and store a lot of data about you without your knowledge and expose it in case of a breach.

With Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection, you will always know what happens with your data. It monitors your digital presence continuously, helping you prevent digital identity theft and impersonation.

1. Find out the breaches you were involved in

With Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection, you can instantly check if your data was leaked in a recent (or old) breach. It only needs your email address and phone number to crawl data leaked from breaches looking for your information.

You get a full list of organizations that revealed your details and what personal information was exposed.

2. See what information was disclosed and how risky it is for you

Besides usernames and passwords, your online accounts pack a lot more info than you may realize. Service providers often ask for your physical address, credit card details and personal preferences to deliver your order. Data breaches spill this information into places malicious hackers can access, such as public repositories or Dark Web forums.

Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection scans millions of websites and monitors the underground networks to check if your information was leaked on the Dark Web. You can see your digital footprint at a glance.

3. Take steps to minimize risks

Each warning from Bitdefender Digital Identity Protection includes the type of information that was exposed in a data breach. In addition, your online dashboard recommends steps to take for each account involved in a data breach.

It is the only service that provides you with weekly reports, actionable advice, and newsletters after scans so that you can be proactive about your digital identity protection.

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