Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal
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The Organic Law 15/1999 of December 13 on Protection of Personal Data (Spanish: Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal, LOPD) was Spanish organic law that guaranteed and protected the processing of personal data, public liberties, and fundamental human rights, and especially of personal and family honor and privacy. It was approved by the General Court on December 13, 1999. This law was developed based on Article 18 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, the familiar and personal right to privacy, and the secrecy of communications.
Its main objective was to regulate the treatment of data and files, of a personal nature, regardless of the support in which they are treated, the rights of citizens over them and the obligations of those who create or treat them. This law affected all data that referred to registered humans on any support, computer or otherwise. Excluded from this regulation are those data collected for domestic use, classified materials of the state and those files that collected data on Terrorism and other forms of organized crime (not simple delinquency).
Based on this law, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection was created, at the state level, which ensures compliance with this Law.
This act was repealed by the passage of a new data protection act, the Organic Law 3/2018 of December 5, about protection of personal data and guarantees of digital rights, to conform the Spanish legislation with the General Data Protection Regulation[1]