ADC and other groups make contributions to Data Law reform
The Association for Civil Rights (ADC), together with other organizations such as Access Now, the Technology and Society Studies Center (CETyS), Data Governance Latam, Democracia en Red (Democracy Network), Fundación Vía Libre, and the Argentinian IT Law Observatory (O.D.I.A.), submitted a document with recommendations to Beatriz Anchorena, head of the Agency for Access to Public Information (AAIP), aiming to feed into the current debate around data protection laws in Argentina.
Among the exhortations presented, we enhanced the need to:
- Develop a multi-participatory plan to draw up the new regulation.
- Include a list of principles ensuring the correct treatment of personal data.
- Create an independent enforcement authority, allotting the necessary resources for its proper functioning.
- Enact sanctions that serve as deterrents and prompt companies and the public sector to comply with the norms.
- Implement limited exceptions to consent as a legitimate basis for processing.
- Establish mandatory procedures to notify security breaches.
- Instate the figure of a Data Protection Officer to ensure compliance with the law by companies and public agencies.
- Provide greater protection to sensitive data being processed.
- Include the categories of data protection by design and by default.
- Impose mandatory impact studies on data protection when the situation requires it.
- Adopt binding, sound, and transparent mechanisms for secure data transfer to third countries.
- Enshrine the right not to be subject to automated or partially automated decision-making.
This document will be further enriched by the undersigned organizations and professionals in future instances of participation and consultatio
