Latin American Data Regulators See Path in European Model

• Companies in Latin American countries want consistency in nations’ data laws • European Union officials recently explained new data protections at a conference in Chile

Regulators and companies across Latin America are pushing for governments to adopt a regional approach to personal data protection, emulating the EU’s new general data protection regulation.

The region took its first steps toward regional regulation after the ten-member countries of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network—including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Portugal Spain and Uruguay—adopted new data protection standards.

The Ibero-American Standards on Data Protection, loosely based on the General Data Protection Regulation, aimed ...