Proconsumidor reitera suspensión de Worldcoin en la RD por "cláusulas abusivas" en contratos de adhesión
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00:00We are trying to abolish a prohibition that is part of the attributes that ProConsumidor has.
00:08In the sense that we try to preserve the integrity of all citizens.
00:13ProConsumidor did not approve the addiction contract because they are harmful.
00:19We also see that their operation does not reflect the interest of playing with the health of Dominicans.
00:29They do not know why they are using the abduction of AIDS here in the Dominican Republic.
00:34They are the monopoly of the registration and abduction of data.
00:40This is the Electoral Central Board.
00:42Later, we notified them of the definitive procedure from Thursday.
00:47They imposed a capital measure that does not yet have a date to conclude.
00:52We were surprised by the fact that they have challenged the authorities
00:57with the purpose of saying that they are going to start their operations
01:00under unfounded allegations from a legal point of view.
01:04They understand that we can allow it, but ProConsumidor will not allow it.
01:07We have given instructions and thus we have warned them.
01:10We notified them.
01:11As soon as we learned that they had called the press for such purposes,
01:15we told them that ProConsumidor will seize all the equipment of the company
01:18if they try to start the operations.
01:22Our inspectors already have the attributions.
01:24Our security forces also know what they have to do.
01:29We expect a rectification on their part because the idea of ProConsumidor is not to confront.
01:34Now, if we are going to protect the integrity of all Dominicans above any kind of malice,
01:40of any citizen, national or foreign, within the faculties that we have,
01:45who understands that he is above the law and the decisions that the authorities
01:49issue, the faculties and regulations that create them.
01:52Many people have even gone in a conscious way to sell their data,
02:00to sell their information, their biometric data.
02:03Attracted by the economic benefits of people with compressed economies
02:08and apart from that, receiving a remuneration in a currency that does not have a liberating force.
02:14I have already said the central bank, which is Bitcoin.
02:17But the electoral committee also issued its opinion by resolution.
02:23And we are going to defend the decision we make.
02:26We are going to defend citizens.
02:28We are going to guarantee the integrity of all our Dominicans.
02:34And that is our role.
02:35And if they challenged that they are going to do it above all that, well, perfect.
02:38See you tomorrow.
02:39I believe that ProConsumidor is going to arrive first than them.
02:42That they go to the center where they are operating.
02:45Because they move constantly.
02:47Because they don't want to be detected quickly.
02:51That's what I was going to ask you.
02:52Has this company ever informed ProConsumidor of the space where they operate
02:59physically, constantly?
03:02And not only that.
03:03The reasons why they are capturing all this biometric data.
03:07No country in the world has tried to operate.
03:10Only they know what the objective is.
03:12Now, yes, the studies and what other countries have done,
03:16they talk about the danger of being able to handle data from our citizens
03:22and from those countries as well,
03:24at the will of 1, 2, 3 people who are remunerating the one who understands,
03:29the one who does it.
03:30And people who do not have the knowledge for such purposes,
03:33they do it.
03:34They are not going to say it.
03:35Because neither what they are operating here,
03:37nor what the labor service is paying them to operate in the Dominican Republic,
03:41the Dominicans do not know what the purpose is.
03:43Now, they are not going to operate.
03:45Because the employees do not know what they are doing.
03:47No, not even the lawyers who are defending the process.
03:49They were present here.
03:50I told them that they do not even know that their clients have not been honest with them.
03:54So, what you can be sure of,
03:58the country, the media,
04:01is that ProConsumidor is going to do its role
04:03and that it is not going to allow them to operate outside of the normative framework
04:07until a decision is made that justifies what they can do.
04:11Even so, we are not going to allow that while we have a space for discussion,
04:17we can accept that.
04:19The board, as a precautionary measure that they imposed,
04:24is already intervening.
04:27And we are going to defend the Dominicans.
04:29If the president, because he is a foreigner,
04:32understands that here they can do whatever they want,
04:34they were wrong.
04:35With ProConsumidor, that does not happen in our administration.
04:39So, we regret that decision.
04:42The idea is not to confront,
04:44but when we have to do it to defend the Dominicans,
04:47we do it with great pleasure.
04:48Eddie, to conclude, what do you expect the courts to resolve in this case?
04:54Well, it is not a secret to anyone
04:56that what they have requested in front of the administrative court
04:59are actions of consequences purely peregrine.
05:02There is no way that they can, in a court,
05:05sustain their claims.
05:08They should have re-entered the contract here.
05:12We totally reject it.
05:14Because they are harmful.
05:16They do not satisfy the collective interest.
05:20And I believe that the decision has to be made by a law student,
05:24an apprentice in the field,
05:26to know that,
05:28it seems that the lawyers are justifying their professional honors,
05:32and I congratulate them,
05:33but ProConsumidor will not allow the integrity of the Dominicans to be put at risk,
05:37under no circumstances.
05:39So, tomorrow, they say they are going to operate,
05:42let's see if they are going to operate tomorrow.
05:44If it is a challenge that the authorities and the country have made,
05:47then, from ProConsumidor, I speak for us.
05:50We accept the challenge.
05:51Let's see if they are going to operate.