What Is Law No. 787 on the Protection of Personal Data, with Decree No. 36-2012?
Law No. 787 and Decree No. 36-2012 provide the located Nicaraguan personal-data framework. The materials support rights of access, rectification or modification, suppression or cancellation, and a five-business-day rule for requested changes. The framework also supports refusing direct marketing or revoking consent for it. The law names DIPRODAP under the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit as the administrative route, followed by amparo. No current official DIPRODAP operating contact was located, and currentness sources covering their respective periods report that the authority had not been established during their respective coverage periods. No Nicaragua-specific data-broker route was located in the supplied research. This is a bounded profile of the located statute, regulation, and currentness material; it does not treat the statutory authority route as proof of a currently operating office.
At a glance
- Full name
- Law No. 787 on the Protection of Personal Data, with Decree No. 36-2012
- Short code
- Nicaragua Law No. 787
- Jurisdiction
- Nicaragua
- Enacted
- 2012
- Last major update
- Decree No. 36-2012 provides the located implementing regulation; current operational establishment of DIPRODAP was not confirmed
- Regulator
- DIPRODAP under the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (current operational status not confirmed in this pass)
- Private right of action
- Limited
- Statutory citation
- Law No. 787 on the Protection of Personal Data, with Decree No. 36-2012
Scope, who Nicaragua Law No. 787 covers
Protected data
Data subject rights
Right of access
Right to rectification or modification
Right to suppression or cancellation
Right to request changes subject to the located five-business-day rule
Right to refuse direct marketing or revoke consent for direct marketing
Right to use the statutory DIPRODAP administrative route followed by amparo
Notable features
The enacted-year field uses 2012, the year identified by the located Decree No. 36-2012 and associated statutory framework. The framework combines a five-business-day rule for requested changes with a statutory DIPRODAP administrative route and subsequent amparo. The authority is named in the law, but no current official operating contact was located and currentness reporting described it as not established during the relevant coverage periods.
Enforcement & penalties
Penalties: The supplied research did not provide a consolidated administrative or criminal penalty schedule; no penalty amount or timeline is stated here.
Private right of action: The summary supports a statutory DIPRODAP administrative route followed by amparo. It did not establish a separate private damages action, so this profile does not state one.
Relevance to data brokers
No Nicaragua-specific data-broker, people-search, public-record suppression, or broker-removal route was located. The general rights and complaint framework should not be presented as a confirmed broker-specific process.
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FAQ
What rights are supported by Nicaragua Law No. 787 in this profile?+
The supplied research supports access, rectification or modification, suppression or cancellation, a five-business-day rule for requested changes, and refusal or consent revocation for direct marketing.
What is the DIPRODAP route?+
The law names DIPRODAP under the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit as an administrative route, followed by amparo. No current official DIPRODAP operating contact was located, and currentness sources reported that the authority had not been established during their coverage periods.
Is there a Nicaragua-specific data-broker opt-out route?+
No Nicaragua-specific data-broker or people-search route was located in the supplied research pass.
Official sources & citations
- Nicaragua National Assembly: Law No. 787 on the Protection of Personal Data
- Nicaragua: Decree No. 36-2012 implementing Law No. 787
- DLA Piper Data Protection Laws of the World: Nicaragua
- Freedom House: Nicaragua Freedom on the Net 2024
- Nicaragua official gazette portal
- Nicaragua VUCEN privacy policy referencing Law No. 787 and Decree No. 36-2012
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