Chile
Law 21.719, which regulates the protection of personal data and creates the Personal Data Protection Agency
Chile's Law 21.719 replaces most of its older data protection rules, lists biometric data as sensitive data and adds a specific article on it. The law is set to start on December 1, 2026. The government has asked Congress to move that date to December 1, 2027, and the Senate approved the bill at its first stage on October 28, 2026. It had not become law when we checked on November 2, 2026. Until the new law starts, Law 19.628 still applies.
Key Provisions
- Biometric data is listed as sensitive personal data
- Article 16 ter sets a specific rule for biometric data
- Creates a new regulator, the Personal Data Protection Agency
- Start date: December 1, 2026, unless Congress passes the proposed move to December 1, 2027
- The proposed delay would leave the law's substantive duties unchanged
Your Biometric Rights
- Right of access
- Right to rectification
- Right to deletion
- Right to object to processing
- Right to block processing
- Right to data portability
- These rights start when Law 21.719 takes effect
Penalties for Non-Compliance
Minor violations: a written warning or a fine up to 5,000 UTM. Serious violations: up to 10,000 UTM. Very serious violations: up to 20,000 UTM. Larger companies can face up to 2% of annual revenue for serious violations and 4% for very serious ones.
What We Do Here
We file opt-out requests on your behalf with the face search engines we support, and re-file as necessary. Once it takes effect, Law 21.719 will give people in Chile rights including deletion of their personal data. We file through each engine's own opt-out process rather than under Law 21.719, and a complaint to the new Agency will be yours to make once it is running.
Get ProtectedOfficial sources
Government, regulator, court and parliament pages we checked this page against. This is general information, not legal advice.