The Right to the Protection of Personal Data in Mexico: New Challenges for Public Administration

Abstract

In Mexico, the recognition of the right to protection of personal data is later than European countries, furthermore, it had a legal and later constitutional emergence. Its importance lies in the fact that at an international level it has been considered a human right since 2000. This work aims to analyze the right to the protection of personal data in Mexico in the technological context, returning to its origin, recognition, development and consolidation as a right autonomous, to subsequently propose the actions of the executive branch and detect the challenges faced by the Mexican Public Administration, regarding regulatory execution. The methodological strategy used is documentary and is based on the legal and constitutional development of the right to the protection of personal data in Mexico, so the data used is qualitative in nature. The result of the research is the recognition of the long path traveled, the great scope obtained by achieving regulatory approval throughout the national territory, but also the detection of the implications and challenges faced by the Public Administration in Mexico from the issuance, in January 2017, of the General Law on Protection of Personal Data.