Personal data of minors in Kazakhstan's Kostanay Region was left openly accessible, and schools in Uzynkol District were found to have serious information security violations — the deficiencies have been remedied under a prosecutor's oversight act, the website infohub.kz reports.
According to the supervisory agency's official website, the Uzynkol District prosecutor's office conducted an analysis of compliance with child safety legislation. The inspection identified violations of requirements on protecting minors' personal data and ensuring information security.
It emerged that officials at two schools transferred students' personal data to service organizations without obtaining prior written consent from their legal representatives.
In addition, documents containing minors' personal data were posted openly on the official website of one educational institution.
For the violation, the head of the institution was held administratively liable under Part 2 of Article 79 of the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses.
The educational institutions were also found to lack proper content filtering: as a result, students had access to internet resources with destructive content, including propaganda of violence and gambling.
The identified violations have been remedied under the prosecutor's oversight act.