Thursday, October 21, 2004

New data protection law in Uruguay

A new law was enacted in Uruguay to regulate commmercial personal information.

See Law no. 17.838 of September 24, 2004.

Saturday, October 09, 2004

WorldLII - Categories - Subjects - Privacy

WorldLII´s Privacy links

Data Protection

The Data Protection Research and Policy Group at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law is an excellent resource for DP materials.

The Group consists of specialist members, regarded as leaders in their field who regularly work with data protection and privacy issues, including regulators, practitioners and academics.

The Group provides a forum in which data protection policy may be considered by lawyers, senior business managers, policy advisers, academics, regulators, public servants, and other specialist practitioners

Thursday, October 07, 2004

Telemarketing

Diario Clarin runs a story today about telemarketing in Argentina. I propose creating an opt out registry like the FTC DO not call registry. Just a few days ago the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the Do-Not-Call Registry Decision.

See http://www.clarin.com/diario/2004/10/07/sociedad/s-03615.htm