Future Law on Data Protection in Costa Rica
July 8th, 2009 | by admin |The Bill has just been voted in favour by the Legal Matters Committee of the Legislative Assembly.
Costa Rica will have its own Law on Data Protection, which will be known as the Law on Individual’’s Protection against Personal Data Treatment. The future Law will ensure the respect of every physical or legal person’’s fundamental rights, specifically their right to self determination of disclosure on personal or business life and other personal rights, regardless of their nationality or residence. The Law will also ensure the protection of their freedom and equality regarding automatic or manual treatment of data belonging to their person or possessions.
The Bill also contains definitions of terms such as personal data, legal entity data, sensitive data, archive, record, file or database, automatic treatment, authority in charge of the file, concerned party and data dissociation, while also establishing basic principles to serve as the backbone to Data Protection in the country, to count: a right to information on data gathering, the concerned party’’s consent, data quality, data safety, and a duty to confidentiality.
On the other hand, a new body of highest decentralization from the government, affiliated to the Public Defence.
