Constitución Política de la República de Guatemala, Art. 31 (habeas data)
Const. Pol. de la República de Guatemala, art. 31 (acceso a archivos y registros estatales)
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In force since 14 January 1986.
A data subject rights rule binding government bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- This provision binds government bodies, not private services; a private app is not itself the addressee of this duty.
- A state entity holding records about a person must, on request, disclose what it holds, the purpose for which it is used, and correct, rectify, or update it on request.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Corte de Constitucionalidad (constitutional amparo review); no dedicated data-protection authority exists
What it reaches
Obligation class
Data subject rights, Disclosure
What this law does
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Article 31 gives every person the right to know what information state files, records, or any other form of state registry holds about them, the purpose for which that information is used, and the right to its correction, rectification, and updating. The article separately bars records or files of political affiliation, except those the electoral authorities and political parties themselves keep.
The right reaches only archivos and registros estatales, the state's own records, so it does not on its own terms bind a private-sector data controller.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Constitución Política de la República de Guatemala
published in an annotated edition by the Instituto de la Defensa Pública Penal (IDPP), a Guatemalan government institution