During 2018 personal data formed a large part of the legal scene
with the leak of the personal data of millions of Facebook users
and the enforcement of the General Regulation of Data Protection of
the European Union- GDPR-
Our country did not escape from this reality since, in recent
years, the bill that regulated the matter in question had been
discussed, although the adoption of a regulation on this matter was
quite lagging behind.
On March 26, 2019, Law 81 on data protection was enacted, prior
to this date personal data only had protection through
constitutional provision where they are contemplated in articles 42
to 44.
It is not surprising that our new regulations adopt concepts
similar to those contained in the GDPR, such as the prior, informed
and unequivocal consent of the owner and the ARCO Rights (access,
rectification, cancellation, opposition) and the right to
portability. Even as a novelty, our legislation establishes five
working days as a term
