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Building a Data Protection Authority: The Journey in Mexico and Beyond
September 2011
Alejandro del Conde Ugarte
Secretary for Data Protection
Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI)
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Enforcing data protection in Mexico is not a new phenomenon. For some years now the public sector has been overseen by the Federal Institute for Access to Public Information. Since the more recent changes in data protection law governing the private sector this enforcement agency has been renamed and the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (“IFAI”) charged with the oversight and enforcement for both the public and private sectors.
For years the Mexican data protection authority and the ministry of justice have worked side by side with industry within Mexico and multi-nationals and various economies throughout the world via a number of associations they have participated in to share their expertise and to exchange data protection and privacy ideas that would benefit both individuals and their economies.
Alejandro del Conde Ugarte, Secretary for Data Protection in the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (IFAI), helps us understand this journey, its history, what is happening now and what the future looks like.
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