Resumen de Seven years of data protection law in Latin America
Seven years of bad luck if you break a mirror, or so the superstition says. It seems that Latin America has not break any mirror in these last seven years. Luckily the data protection and privacy legislation is spreading in the region. During the last seven years Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Perú and Uruguay approved new data protection statutes regulating the collection and use of personal data, and in some cases prohibiting data transfer to countries that do not have adequate protection of privacy. Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela have proposed legislation under consideration. Probably more countries will soon follow.
