Registry of Integrity and Transparency of Businesses and Entities: New Personal Data Module

The Argentine Anti-Corruption Office (OA) and the Agency of Access to Public Information (AAIP) promoted a collaborative process during 2023, to implement the Personal Data Module of the Registry of Integrity and Transparency of Businesses and Entities (RITE).

RITE is an online platform with voluntary and free-of-charge subscription. It seeks to promote the development and improvement of companies and entities’ integrity programs. The platform was designed by the Anti-corruption Office and launched in December 2022. Currently, over 300 companies are registered in the first module, related to integrity and anti-corruption.

RITE is currently under expansion: the modules on personal data and those on protection of human rights, gender equality, and environmental protection are being assessed to be implemented. These new initiatives come as the result of a broad and sustainable conception of corporate integrity that seeks the fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goals.

In this context, on October 12, 2023, the Heads of the OA and the AAIP launched the RITE’s Personal Data module online simulator. Also, on November 23,  the OA approved through Resolution 9/2023 the personal data form, which will enable companies to identify their progress regarding their corporate data protection policies. This will be useful to strengthen the best standards in privacy policies and the personal data security, transparency, and sustainable integrity. These measures are also intended to promote compliance with current regulations and other regulations being discussed in the Congress. Currently, the form includes different aspects not covered by regulations in force but present in the  Personal Data Protection Bill (e.g., legal bases).

Both the Personal Data module and the form resulted from a collaborative process involving four working sessions in which over 140 specialists of the public and private sectors and the civil society made over 50 comments and contributions.

The form includes questions regarding organizations’ personal data protection plans, addressing various aspects that contribute both to complying with the Personal Data Protection Law 25326 and with best practices in the market, even those not yet mandatory by legislation in force.

This module is still in its initial stage. It would be important to monitor when it will start operating and which will be the pioneering companies that join the Personal Data module to continue spreading best practices in integrity and personal data.