EL SISTEMA LEGAL UROGUAYO DE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS PERSONALES.

The following begins analyzing different regimes for data protection, describes the regulation on data protection and habeas data in the European Union, the United States of America, Canada, Iberoamerica and Latin America. It continues explaining the activities of the Red Iberoamericana de Protección de Datos (Iberoamerican data protection network), which was established as a result of an initiative put forward by the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (Spanish data protection agency), its constitution, purpose, tasks, and the series of documents approved, in particular the set of norms recently approved (2007) on general principles on data protection. On the last part, the document describes the Uruguayan regime on data protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]