Ley No. 787, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales, sensitive categories of data

Ley No. 787, arts. 3(g), 7(l), 8 (sensitive categories of data)

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In force since 29 March 2012.

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Process sensitive personal data (racial or ethnic origin, political affiliation, religious or philosophical belief, union membership, health or sex life, criminal record, or financial and credit information) only on a general-interest ground recognized by law, the data subject's consent, or a judicial order.
Do not create a data file that stores sensitive personal data except as this Act provides, even though a commercial company or nonprofit association may still keep a file of its own members' data.
Process a person's criminal record or administrative infraction data only if you are a competent public authority acting within your own powers.
Where you are a hospital, clinic, health center, or health professional, limit the health data you process to a patient's physical or mental health information, and process it under professional secrecy.
Disclose a company's commercial data about its customers, suppliers, or human resources only with the data subject's consent, under an express law of social interest, or by judicial order.
Do not compel a data subject to supply their sensitive personal data, except where this Act's own exceptions apply.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition, Consent, Access restriction

What this law does

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Article 3, item g, defines sensitive personal data as any information revealing racial or ethnic origin, political affiliation, religious, philosophical, or moral belief, union membership, health or sex life, criminal record or administrative infractions, or economic or financial information, including credit and financial information and any other information that could motivate discrimination, with no reference to biometric or genetic data.

Article 7, item l, bars creating a data file that stores sensitive data, except as this Act provides, though a commercial company or nonprofit association may still keep its own members' data.

Article 8 divides personal data into categories: sensitive personal data may be obtained and processed only for reasons of general interest stated in the law, with the data subject's consent, or by judicial order, and data about criminal record or administrative infractions may be processed only by the competent public authorities within their own powers; health data held by a public or private hospital, clinic, or health center, and by health professionals, is limited to a patient's physical or mental health data and processed under professional secrecy; and commercial data on a company's customers, suppliers, and human resources, kept for advertising purposes or as reserved commercial or business information, may be disclosed only with the data subject's consent, by express law of social interest, or by judicial order.

Article 17, item e, gives every data subject the right not to be compelled to supply sensitive personal data, except as this Act's own exceptions provide.

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Read the law

Official text, Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua legislation database (Normas Juridicas de Nicaragua)

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