Comparative study about the Data Protection System in Latin America
Nowadays, the tools for data processing are becoming more powerful, sophisticated, omnipresent and accessible, allowing information to be easily obtained, localized and linked to diverse stakeholders, including states or big corporations. Profiling, a segmentation of people by their behavioral targeting and public segmentation are more and more happening on a larger scale. Personal data are increasingly becoming the key asset for business and administration operations and are essential for an effective governability.
Having this in mind, the Argentinian organization Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) released yesterday two studies about the Data Protection System in Latin America. In the first one, the current legislations of Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico) are compared with the new General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. In the second, the private sector of communications in the continent and its privacy policies are analyzed. The goal was to identify opportunities and challenges for human rights, taking into account the role that personal data have acquired in the existing context of technological development.
The two volumes can be accessed (in Spanish) on the following links:
VOLUME. 1: El Sistema de Protección de Datos Personales en América Latina
VOLUME 2: Políticas de Protección de Datos Personales en las Empresas de Telecomunicaciones
InternetLab took part in the initiative, contributing with the information related to Brazil. The material produced under the request and methodology of the ADC Derechos Civiles can be found on the following links: