The Agency for Access to Public Information published its 2022 activities report

By Mariano Peruzzotti, Andrea Sanchez Vicentini and Belén Sorrentino.

The Agency for Access to Public Information (“Agency”) published its annual report highlighting the activities rendered during 2022. We briefly comment on the most important aspects concerning Personal Data Protection included in the report:

• New Personal Data Protection law bill
  • The Agency conducted a process aimed at amending the Data Protection Law which concluded with the drafting of a bill that is being considered by the Executive Branch as commented in our previous article.
• Drive for accession to Convention 108+
  • After the formal approval of Convention 108+ by the Argentine Congress, the Agency released regulations in accordance with the parameters of such treaty.
• Complaints for violation of the Personal Data Protection Law
  • The Agency received 491 complaints for possible violations of the Personal Data Protection Law;
  • The Agency imposed 52 sanctions to different organizations.
• National Registry of Personal Databases
  • The Agency reported:
    • 1,349 registrations of personal database controllers,
    • 1,947 registrations of private databases,
    • 88 registrations of public databases,
    • 408 modifications of previous registrations
    • 103 requests of delisting from the registration.
• Do Not Call Registry
  • 24.045 complaints were filed with the Registry and 219.320 telephone lines were included in the Do Not Call Registry;
  • The Agency imposed 24 sanctions to different companies.

For further information please contact: asanchezvicentini@ojambf.com, bsorrentino@ojambf.com and/or mperuzzotti@ojambf.com.

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