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On Friday, January 28th, the “International Data Protection Day” was celebrated -a date that has its origin in the signing of Convention 108 of the Council of Europe. What is the situation of personal data protection in Latin America today? In this column we review the situation in some of the countries of the region.

We made some progress in 2021 in the international legal framework on artificial intelligence (AI), but we need more specific measures to uphold human rights in the application of these technologies because the impacts are real, negative, and catastrophic, as Michelle Bachelet pointed out.