Law 19.628Law No. 19,628 on the Protection of Private Life (Ley sobre Protección de la Vida Privada)Chile's original data protection law, setting basic consent and purpose rules, rights of access and correction and specific rules for financial data, enforced only through courts.
- Synopsis
Chile's original data protection law, setting basic consent and purpose rules, rights of access and correction and specific rules for financial data, enforced only through courts.
- Key themes
- Unique features
No supervisory authority or administrative fines; enforcement via civil courts.
- SaaS relevance
Applies until Law 21.719 takes effect; low enforcement risk but consent requirements apply.
- Extraterritorial
- No
- Breach notification
- None
- DPO
- No
- Cross-border transfers
- None specific
- Maximum penalty
- Low court fines (UTM-based)
- Key dates
- Adopted
- In force
- Superseded in substance by Law 21.719 amendments from 2026-12-01 (or later if deferred); constitutional right to data protection added 2018 (art. 19 no. 4)
- Text
- Authoritative text bcn.cl
- Authority
- None designated (courts; SERNAC for consumer aspects)
- Verification
Medium confidence.
Partly verified
Medium confidence.Exact 1999 dates from general knowledge.
- Record
- Full record for Law 19.628