CHILE
May 04, 2017
On Monday, March 13, 2017, a bill was sent to the Senate seeking to increase
protection of personal data privacy to fulfill international standards.
Should it be
approved by the Senate, the bill will incorporate a series of new principles in this
subject affecting the concept and requisites for consenting the use of personal data,
restricting the automated processing of data, creating a Personal Data Protection
Agency, regulating international data transfer and adopting certain security measures
as well as the requirement to report them. The bill would enter in force 13 months
after its publication, although it sets forth a 4-year period for previously existent
databases to adapt their practices to the new regulations.
The Chilean Patent and Trademark Office (INAPI) recently presented its IP
Development Strategy to stimulate research and development in the country. It
consists, essentially, in a battery of 60 proposals that can be viewed in the following
link: http://www.inapi.cl/portal/publicaciones/608/articles-9870_recurso_1.pdf
The above two developments and the recent creation of the Science and Technology
Ministry demonstrate the commitment of Chile to keep improving an already quite
sophisticated intellectual property system in Latin America.