Chile
Tier 2 Comprehensive law AmericasPrincipal framework: Law 21.719 (fully in force Dec 2026) (2024). Regulator: Personal Data Protection Agency (from 2026). Law 21.719 (2024) applies in full from 1 December 2026, creating Chile’s first dedicated DPA — the Agencia de Protección de Datos Personales.
At a glance
- Principal law
- Law 21.719 (fully in force Dec 2026)
- Regulator
- Personal Data Protection Agency (from 2026)
- Breach notification
- Notify the Agency without undue delay under Law 21.719
- Maximum penalty
- Up to 20,000 UTM; repeated gross breaches up to 4% of annual turnover
- DPO required
- DPO required in defined cases
- Digital consent age
- 14 for a minor’s own consent
- Extraterritorial reach
- Yes — targeting people in Chile
Structure
- Structural pattern
- Not assessed
- Sub-jurisdictions
- None — no sub-national axis
- ISO code
- CL
A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.
Transfers and adequacy
- EU member
- No
- EEA member
- No
Instruments
No instrument profiled yet.
Sources
- Primary Ley Chile — official texts
Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.