Tratamiento de datos personales en el Estado y acceso a la información pública

Abstract

Before the amendment of Article 8 of the Constitution of 1980 and the enactment of Act 20 285, on transparency and access to information of public services, there is a new protective legal mechanism and procedures in order to exercise the right of access before the organs of state and, in case of refusal to the delivery of records, deeds, contracts, documents, resolutions and state contracts, go for defense before the Council of Transparency. However, the previous period of law 19.628 on protection of privacy and the actual wording of the law 20 285-on «active transparency» and «grounds of secrecy or confidentiality, to reasonably require legal protection treatment Personal data on public services should become a law limiting access to administrative information, especially when no need to require expression of cause or reason for the applicant is one of the essential principles of the law 20 285.