Personal Data and Higher Education

SEÑOR DIRECTOR:The rejection of the protection appeal filed by three universities against the request of the National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) to hand over personal data of all its students and alumni sets a worrying precedent. Of course, Law 19.628 on privacy requires that, in order to accede to this request, there should be a prior consent of the students, which has not happened. Under this jurisprudence other State bodies could in t…