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The
Spanish Privacy Law
The Spanish Privacy Law (Ley Orgánica
de Protección de Datos Personales),
hereinafter LOPD, establishes a range of obligations
for those companies, independent professionals,
and state administration entities holding
and managing personal information.
In addition, the Law mentioned above, that
withdraws the previous LORTAD, aims at the
guarantee and protection of public freedom
and fundamental rights of people, particularly
their honour, and personal and familiar privacy. |
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Precedents |
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The LOPD is active since 15th January 2000, when
the previous LORTAD was withdrawn. The main difference
between this two laws is that the scope of the LORTAD
only reach the files containing personal information
in an electronic support. The LOPD widens this scope
to any kind of support, that is, files in a tangible
format are also subject to the Law.
Nevertheless, the LOPD stills keeps some aspects
of the LORTAD. In this sense, it is established
that LORTAD is ruling every aspect not included
in the LORTAD. This is case, for example, of the
Safety Document Code, with was established previously
to the LOPD.
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