Law 1581 of 2012 established the general regime of protection of personal data of Colombia and set at the head of the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) the obligation to prepare a public directory of the databases existing in the country.

During the week in which the deadline for complying with this absurd obligation expired (again), Colombians were massively turned, and at the last moment, to comply with the "very important" requirement to register their databases with SIC.

"In a medium crammed with bureaucracy, the excess of formalism, and the absurd" window-shopping "rule the absurdity of putting ordinary citizens, micro-enterprises, SMEs and small businesses on their bases. data"

More absurd is that in a country where there are guiding principles of public management, such as efficiency, transparency and collaboration between entities of the State to make life easier for citizens, an additional registration is imposed when Already exists the Mercantile Registry that the Chambers of Commerce carry.

Macondiano, having to enter a web page (which collapses and collapses) where it is necessary: register, establish a password, register the company, change password (!!!), enter the user administration module ... to, There, arrive at the point where the citizen is indicated as is the general diagram of operation of the system.

At this point, the following Crucis has not yet been started, including the channel, edit the channel, upload flat files (!!!), to continue with steps as strange and exotic as the eighth Of "International Data Transfer" and the ninth "International Data Transmission"

It is difficult to believe that a serious entity like the SIC, responsible for ensuring the proper handling of personal information and databases, has been able to mount such an absurd and cumbersome procedure. If it were good, efficient and simple and everyone would have checked it out.

The simile of mules can be brought up at airports. While all the police are busy detecting a mule, they inadvertently pass huge cargoes in front of their noses. With the RNBD, while the ordinary citizens, we are busy for hours to register, we are victims of people who dedicate themselves professionally without any sanction by the authorities to invade our privacy.

The RNBD could have been done in a much simpler and simpler way, encouraging the registration of databases, not discouraging citizens from doing so.

How simple, it would have been, under the principle of institutional collaboration between the SIC and the Chambers of Commerce, to open a special registry module for databases in the Public Registry (already existing) of entities of the Chambers of Commerce. Thus, the merchant or entity, already registered as a trader in such registration, would enter under the presumption of good faith to register their databases in a simple, intuitive and agile.

With a simpler record, the SIC could focus its efforts on random and selective database monitoring to establish compliance with its use and treatment under the guidelines established by law.

"Finally, and as it should be, the entity could fall with the same firmness and strength as it has done with cartels, pricing and anticompetitive behavior, large multinationals and abusive treatment of personal information, with exemplary fines that manage to cut off the unpunished conduct of selling and trafficking personal data "

And what sadness, or rather than "shame" that the entity, instead of recognizing the failure of its complex system of national registry of databases, fix the problem with a lukewarm water, postponing and postponing the deadline to perform register.