A bill to establish and regulate Argentina's data
sovereignty was filed with Congress.
On March 9, 2017, a draft bill to regulate data sovereignty in
Argentina reached the House of Representatives ("Bill").
The Bill was filed by representatives Sandra Mendoza, Adrián
Grana, Carlos Castagneto, Eduardo Seminara, Juan Manuel Huss and
Rodrigo Martín Rodríguez.
The Bill emphasizes the need for new regulation, in response to
the growing amount of data generated by the Argentine public sector
and its increasing importance. It further refers to the growing
number of data centers located abroad, outside Argentina's
jurisdiction.
In this context, the Bill stresses the need for certain data to
be stored exclusively within the Argentine territory, in order to
maintain sovereignty over the data and to ensure its security and
accessibility, as well as compliance with Argentine regulations. To
this effect, the Bill refers as an example to data centers located
in the United
