Personal Data Protection is regulated in the Constitution, Article 109, Decree 62-2004 and Article 3.5, Decree 170-2006.
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Personal Data Protection is regulated mainly in:
- National Constitution: Article 182 provides
the constitutional protection of Habeas Data, giving individuals
the right "to access any file or record, private or public,
electronic or hand written, that contains information which may
produce damage to personal honour and family privacy. It is also a
method to prevent the transmission or disclosure of such data,
rectify inaccurate or misleading data, update data, require
confidentiality and to eliminate false information. This guarantee
does not affect the secrecy of journalistic sources."
- Law of the Civil Registry (Article 109, Decree
62-2004). This Law refers only to public personal information that
is contained in the archives of the Civil Registry.
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