SIM Card Number as Property Right of User: Privacy Data Perspective

Abstract

The use of applications, especially financial apps and social media, requires a mobile phone number or SIM Card Number as the main prerequisite in operating the program. Mobile phone numbers are useful for synchronizing customers' personal data. This research aims to examine the ministerial regulation on the reuse of SIM Card numbers based on Personal Data Protection. This research is normative research conducted by examining various formal legal rules such as laws, regulations, international conventions, and literature containing theoretical concepts that are associated with the problems to be discussed in this study. The results of this study indicate that (1) the SIM Card Number Provider has absolute ownership rights over the number, and (2) the current law has not specifically regulated the reuse of SIM Card numbers from a privacy data perspective. Here, with the current use of financial technology and its relation to customer numbers, it is potentially easier to breach one's personal data resulting in material and immaterial breaches.