INTERNET LAW - Cybercrime and Data Protection Law in Chile

Martha L. Arias, Martha L. AriasEmail
E-Commerce is growing vastly in Latin American countries, and for this reason these countries are steadily enacting legislation against cybercrimes. There are innumerable types of cyber-crimes of which the most currently and internationally prosecuted are (1) Internet fraud (including businesses, auctions, merchants, securities); (2) identity theft; (3) hacking, data theft and destruction; (4) child predation and pornography; (5) cyber-stalking; (6) extortion and sabotage; and (7) terrorism.

Both, international organizations and national governments are enacting crime-specific legislation against cybercrimes. For instance, some European countries have signed the Cybercrime Convention, which addresses several Internet wrongdoings including intellectual property violations; the United States has enacted a great number of statutes typifying certain conducts as cybercrime offenses. Among them, we have the Digital Millennium Copyright and the Child Pornography Act; the European Union published the Data Protection Directive as well as other Directives addressing other specific Internet offenses.

Chile enacted Data Protection law No. 19,223 in 1993. Following is a brief of this Chilean Data Protection Law.

 

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