On September 29, Mexico's data protection authority (Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información Pública y Protección de Datos, or "IFAI") presented the Mexican Congress with two legislative initiatives, the Proposed General Law of Transparency and Access to Public Information (source document in Spanish) and the Proposed General Law of Protection of Personal Data Held by Public Entities (source document in Spanish), applicable to governmental authorities. On October 7, the Mexican Senate established a working group to incorporate these secondary laws with the transparency reform currently underway.
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