What Is Ley N.º 21.719, que Regula la Protección y el Tratamiento de los Datos Personales?

Chile's official Ley Chile record identifies Law 21.719 as published 13 December 2024, with the current version carrying deferred validity from 1 December 2026. Until that commencement date, the pre-existing Law 19.628 remains the operative baseline — an important distinction for any description of Chile's current legal framework. In September 2026, the Ministry of Economy announced a proposal to postpone commencement to 1 December 2027 and extend implementation time; that proposal does not itself change the statutory commencement date. The enacted text of Law 21.719 supports a bounded territorial and personal scope: it covers processing by natural or legal persons, including public bodies, reaches specified foreign offering or monitoring activity involving people in Chile, and excludes personal activities and protected expression/information activity. These are statutory-text findings about the future regime, not a claim that it is already operative. The enacted text separately provides access, rectification, suppression, opposition, and portability rights, with a 30-calendar-day response period (extendable by up to 30 more calendar days) and a 2-business-day temporary-blocking response rule. Current agency appointments, implementing regulations, complaint-portal availability, sector exceptions, and the amendment's full effects remain open questions ahead of the statutory December 2026 commencement unless the pending proposal becomes law.

Written byRahul Kandoriya·Founder, OfflistMe·Last updated October 12, 2026