On February 1, 2015, the Mexican Senate resumed discussions on secondary laws relating to transparency, access to public information, and data privacy, pursuant to last year's amendment of the 6th article of the Mexican Constitution. On February 7, 2015, the IFAI released a statement (source document in Spanish) on the importance of approving the secondary laws in order to standardize data privacy obligations for governmental authorities.

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