Cybercrime And The Data Protection Law In Chile

Martha Arias CYBERCRIME AND THE DATA PROTECTION LAW IN CHILE Since e-commerce is growing fast in Latin American countries, these countries are steadily enacting legislation against cyber-crimes. There are innumerable types of cyber-crimes. The most currently and internationally prosecuted are, (i) Internet fraud (including businesses, auctions, merchants, securities, ect.); (ii) identity theft; (iii) hacking, data theft and destruction; (iv) child predation and pornography; (v) cyber-stalking; (vi) extortion and sabotage; and (vii) terrorism.

Both, international organizations and national governments are enacting legislation against specific types of cyber-crimes. For instance, some European countries have signed the Cyber-crime Convention, which addresses several Internet wrongdoings including intellectual property violations; the United States has enacted a great number of statutes typifying certain conducts as cyber-crimes offenses. Among them, we have the Digital Millennium Copyright, The Child Pornography Act, etc; the European Union published the Data Protection Directive as well as other Directives addressing Internet offenses.

Most of the domestic cyber-crime laws are crime-specific. Chile enacted a Data Protection law 19,223 in 1993. Following is a brief of the Data Protection Law in Chile.

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