A/HRC/49/55
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 January 2022
English
Original: Spanish
Human Rights Council
Forty-ninth session
28 February–1 April 2022
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Privacy and personal data protection in Ibero-America: A
step towards globalization?
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Ana Brian
Nougrères
Summary
Ibero-America has seen some highly interesting developments in the area of privacy
and personal data protection since the start of the twenty-first century.
This report describes the current situation in respect of privacy in Ibero-America,
focusing on personal data protection, the historical background and the international
approach. The Special Rapporteur analyses the issues through the lens of developments in
the Uruguayan system over the last 20 years. She also describes the evolution of personal
data protection systems in other Ibero-American countries before, in the final section,
considering how these systems have coalesced in recent years to form the Ibero-American
personal data protection system.
The Special Rapporteur suggests that the Ibero-American data protection system
could provide a model for a way of working collaboratively towards a world where the
principles of privacy and personal data protection are mutually agreed upon and respected,
leading to the implementation of digital privacy standards, and where integration and
harmonization are goals that can be achieved without departing from the ethical principles
that guarantee respect for human diversity.
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