Mexico:
Mexican Senate Discusses Secondary Laws To Transparency Constitutional Amendment
19 January 2015
Jones Day
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On September 29, Mexico's data protection authority
(Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información
Pública y Protección de Datos, or
"IFAI") presented the Mexican Congress with two
legislative initiatives, the Proposed General Law of Transparency and Access to
Public Information (source document in Spanish) and the Proposed General Law of Protection of Personal
Data Held by Public Entities (source document in Spanish),
applicable to governmental authorities. On October 7, the Mexican
Senate established a working group to incorporate these secondary
laws with the transparency reform currently underway.
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