LOPDP, categorías especiales de datos personales

LOPDP, arts. 25-32 (categorias especiales de datos personales)

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In force since 26 May 2021.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Do not process personal data without a lawful basis under the Act, and obtain explicit consent before processing a sensitive category of data unless another enumerated ground applies.
Treat the data of children and adolescents, health data and disability data as special categories alongside sensitive data.
Do not process sensitive data at all unless the data subject has given explicit consent or one of the other grounds article 26 lists applies.
Process health data only on the terms articles 30 to 32 set, and credit data only as articles 28 and 29 permit, respecting the credit data subject's own rights.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition, Consent, Biometric, Age verification

What this law does

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Article 25 makes sensitive data, the data of children and adolescents, health data and disability data special categories of personal data. Article 26 prohibits the processing of sensitive data unless the data subject gives explicit consent or one of the other enumerated grounds applies.

Article 27 governs the personal data of deceased persons, articles 28 and 29 credit data and the rights of credit data subjects, and articles 30 to 32 health data, its processing, and its processing by private and public bodies. Article 21 separately gives children and adolescents a heightened right not to be the object of a decision based solely or partly on automated processing.

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

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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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