In Mexico, Convention 108 and its Additional Protocol entered into force on October 1, 2018. Since 2017, the Council of Europe invited our country to adhere to the Convention, but it was not until the following year that the Senate of the Republic ratified both instruments. international.
Within the framework of this commemoration, last Monday the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI) held the forum “The protection of personal data in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, co-organized by my colleagues Francisco Javier Acuña and Josefina Román Vergara.
In this forum, in which authorities and specialists in the field participated, we agree that, in a democracy, it is transcendental to have autonomous, technical and specialized bodies such as the INAI that guarantee the protection of personal data as a fundamental right that allows achieving freedoms and human dignity in the context of the digital era in which we live and develop.
INAI has worked not only in adherence to what is established in the Constitution, to those principles that today motivate us and move us to work independently and autonomously, in favor of respect for the rights of Mexicans to access public information and protection of personal data.
Since 2015, the member states of the United Nations, together with organizations and citizens from around the world, set out to develop 17 objectives to build sustainable development in three key areas: economic, social and environmental, which constitutes the 2030 Agenda, the central theme of this commemoration.
The organizations that guarantee the right to know and the protection of personal data are protagonists of this agenda. On the one hand, because the UN recognizes that, and I quote, “accessible, timely, disaggregated and reliable quality data will be necessary to measure progress and to ensure that no one is left behind.”
However, the 2022 Sustainable Development Goals Report also points out that the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that large data gaps persist in monitoring the SDGs and that the need for a robust statistical database is urgently needed. increased investment in data and statistics. And it is in this logic that INAI plays its role, aware of those challenges that we have in front of us.
