On June 9 and 10, the City of Santa Marta in Colombia hosted the 4th International Conference on Data Protection and the 15th Iberoamerican Meeting on Data Protection. Discussion topics included changes in privacy environment; data breach incidents; national security, private sector data, and individual control via encryption; and social network and observational data. The conference hosted authorities from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile.

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