Personal Data Protection Law (Ley de Proteccion de los Datos Personales)

One of the oldest comprehensive regimes in Latin America and one of the few holding a European Commission adequacy decision (granted 2003, maintained under GDPR review). It is a registration-centric, pre-GDPR law: it applies to personal data recorded in databases located in Argentina or otherwise subject to Argentine jurisdiction, and databases must be registered with the Agencia de Acceso a la Informacion Publica (AAIP). There is no GDPR-style targeting test for a foreign controller with no Argentine database or establishment, so the trigger below is modeled on established presence only. A modernization bill closely tracking the GDPR (introducing extraterritorial scope, breach notification, DPOs, and turnover-linked fines) has been before Congress since 2023 without passage — confirm its status before treating the current law as the settled long-term position.