Privacy ombudsman András Jóri launched an inquiry yesterday into a Finance Ministry decree ordering psychiatric aptitude tests and at least a 90-point IQ level for potential employees of the tax authority APEH.
Jóri said he finds the decree worrisome in both form and content. The right to personal data is a constitutional basic right and its restriction is governed by law rather than by a simple decree, he said. He also objected that the Finance Ministry had not sent the draft decree to his office to receive an opinion thereon, although this is specified by law.
Finally, Jóri complained that the decree stipulates data handling on an extremely wide sphere, and that information technology experts, for instance, also need to undergo psychiatric tests.