On 26 January 2017 Mexico enacted a new General Law for the
Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Obliged Subjects
("General Law"). The General Law
dictates the basis, principles and processes to guarantee
individuals' rights to the protection of their personal data.
"Obliged Subjects" are any entity that
benefits from public funds, including political parties and trusts,
in addition to Federal, State and Municipal authorities.
The General Law provides, in similar terms as the 'Federal
Law on Data Protection Held by Particulars'
("DPLaw"), the framework to be adopted
for protecting personal data and facilitating transparency,
including provisions to warrant peoples' rights of access,
rectification, cancellation and opposition. The compliance with
both, the General Law and the DPLaw will be supervised by the
Federal Institute for Access to Public information and data
protection and the State Guarantors (there are currently up to 31
guarantors of the compliance
