The Mexican Senate has unanimously approved a landmark data protection law governing information use in the private sector, la Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en posesión de los particulares (full text in Spanish).  We provided information on the bill last week when the Chamber of Deputies voted to approve it.  The legislation has been forwarded to the president for signature.  We will provide further details as this story develops. 

Mason Weisz, an associate at Hunton & Williams, provided an overview of the new legislation during the Centre for Information Policy Leadership’s First Friday Call on June 11, 2010.