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Daily Dashboard | Argentina's new Agency of Access to Public Information Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Recent changes to Argentina's access to public information and ministries laws have created a new agency, the Agency of Access to Public Information, and given it powers formerly held by the National Directorate of Data Protection. Diego Fernandez of Marval, O'Farrell & Mairal writes for Privacy Tracker that the new agency is "an autarchic entity that operates with functional autonomy within the President’s Chief of Staff Office." A September 2017 emergency decree established the agency as the controlling authority of the country's Data Protection Law, while a complementary decree "established that any reference to the directorate, its duties and authorities should be understood as a reference to the agency." Fernandez writes that the change may, in part, be a response to the EU "comment[ing] negatively on the lack of independence of the directorate" during the time of Argentina's adequacy decision.
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