PERSONAL AND BIOMETRIC DATA. MEXICO'S COMMITMENT WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The purpose of this essay aims to provide an overview of the importance of the protection of personal data, its origin in Anglo-Saxon law, its development, and the relevance it has acquired in our democratic societies of law, the Latin American interpretation of its legal concept and the European trends that give rise to the most recent international normative standard for the protection of personal data as a fundamental right. In this sense, it is intended to distinguish a specific category at the international level within personal data, specially protected data or also called sensitive data, specifically biometric data, and the challenge that the application of regulations on the matter means for countries, considering the security of the handling of personal information, and at the same time, the growing need for the exchange of information and the flow of this data.