Mexico - Data Protection Overview

September 2024  1. Governing Texts Mexico has followed, along with other Latin American countries, the international trend of ensuring the protection of personal data. In this sense, the protection of personal data is a fundamental right recognized by the Constitution of Mexico (the Constitution) since 2009. However, please note that on February 5, 2024, a draft decree proposing the amendment of various articles of the Constitution was introduced to the Chambers of Deputies, which includes some changes in the area of personal data protection. Nonetheless, in recognizing the fundamental right to protection of personal data, the Federal Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Partie