Data Protection: Census And Registration Of Databases

On October 2000, Argentina enacted its first Data Protection Law¹. Among other aspects related to the protection of personal data, the Data Protection Law provided for the obligation to register the databases under the scope of such law² in a register to be created.

By the end of 2003, the National Direction for Personal Data Protection issued a Resolution³ to create the National Databases Register; nevertheless, such register has not been implemented yet and the obligation to register the databases is not enforceable currently.

As a last step in the process aiming at implementing the National Databases Register and making enforceable the obligation to register databases, the Direction implemented a census of Databases⁴, mandatory for all owners of private databases, to be carried out between March 1, 2004 and April 30, 2004. However, based on the interest aroused by the census, the Direction has recently extended such term to June 30, 2004⁵.