Ley No. 172-13 sobre Protección Integral de los Datos Personales, special and sensitive categories of data

Article 6, item 8, defines specially protected data as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, philosophical or moral convictions, union affiliation, or health or sex life information, and article 6, item 31, restates the same categories as sensitive data, leaving out racial or ethnic origin and making no reference to biometric or genetic data in either definition.

Article 75 bars anyone from being compelled to provide sensitive data, lets a person provide it only if they freely and consciously choose to, and prohibits forming a file, databank, or register that directly or indirectly reveals sensitive data without the data subject's free, conscious, and voluntary consent, though churches, religious associations, clinics, hospitals, and political or union organizations may still keep a membership register, and sensitive data may otherwise be collected only for reasons of general interest authorized by law or for statistical or scientific purposes where the data subject cannot be identified.

Article 76 requires the data subject's express written consent before processing data revealing political opinions, religious, philosophical or moral convictions, union affiliation, or health or sex life information, except for files kept by political parties, unions, churches, religious communities, and nonprofit associations or foundations about their own members, and even then any disclosure of that data still needs the member's prior consent.

Article 77 allows a person's criminal record data to be included in a file, or communicated to a public register, only once a court has ordered the person to stand trial.

Article 78 lets a public or private health establishment or health professional process a patient's physical or mental health data under the rules of the Dominican Republic's health legislation and the duty of professional secrecy, and lets data on racial origin, health, or sex life be processed where necessary for medical prevention or diagnosis, health care, medical treatment, or managing health services, so long as the person handling it is bound by professional secrecy or an equivalent duty.

Article 66 bars a Sociedad de Información Crediticia from collecting, storing, or using in a credit report a consumer's emotional or affective characteristics, political ideology or opinions, religious beliefs or convictions, or information about their physical or psychological health or their sexual conduct, preference, or orientation, reinforcing the same categories against use in credit reporting specifically.

Article 79 leaves the processing of a minor's data to the Code for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents, the Criminal Code, and other special laws, so this Act states no independent standard of its own for a minor's data.