Law / Ecuador

LOPDP, derechos del titular

LOPDP, arts. 12-24 (derechos del titular)

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In force since 26 May 2021.

A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not make a decision based solely or partly on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal or similarly significant effects for a data subject, and give heightened protection where the data subject is a child or adolescent.
  • Answer a data subject's request for information, access, rectification, updating, erasure, objection, portability or suspension of the processing on the terms articles 12 to 19 set.
  • Give children and adolescents the heightened protection article 21 provides against a decision based solely or partly on automated processing.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Data subject rights, Disclosure

What this law does

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Article 12 gives the data subject a right to information, article 13 a right of access, article 14 a right of rectification and updating, article 15 a right of erasure, article 16 a right to object, article 17 a right to portability and article 19 a right to suspension of the processing, with article 18 setting the exceptions to rectification, updating and erasure.

Article 20 gives every data subject the right not to be the object of a decision based solely or partly on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal or similarly significant effects, unless a narrow exception applies, and article 21 gives children and adolescents that right in a heightened form. Article 22 gives a right of consultation, article 23 a right to digital education, and article 24 fixes how the rights are exercised.

The law was published in Registro Oficial Suplemento 459 of 26 May 2021 and is recorded there as in force, which is the day these provisions began to bind.

When LexLint raises it

  • crawls_web
  • trains_models
  • deploys_chatbot
  • automated_outreach
  • high_risk_decisions
  • serves_minors

Read the law

Official text of the LOPDP as published by Ecuador's Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social (finanzaspopulares.gob.ec)

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