On January 18, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism published a decree (source document in Spanish) modifying the type of databases that must be registered with the National Registry of Databases (Registro Nacional de Bases de Datos). Under the regulation, only databases containing personal data processed by public entities, nonprofit companies, or entities with greater than 100,000 tax value units must be registered.

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