Makes high-risk automated decisions, in Ecuador
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LOPDP, automated decisionssince 2 lines
LOPDP, arts. 20-21 (right not to be the object of a decision based on automated processing) · Read the law's page
- Do not make a decision based solely or partly on automated processing, including profiling, that produces legal or similarly significant effects for a data subject, and give heightened protection where the data subject is a child or adolescent.
- Give children and adolescents the heightened protection article 21 provides against a decision based solely or partly on automated processing.
LOPDP, categorías especiales de datos personalessince 4 lines
LOPDP, arts. 25-32 (categorias especiales de datos personales) · Read the law's page
- Do not process personal data without a lawful basis under the Act, and obtain explicit consent before processing a sensitive category of data unless another enumerated ground applies.
- Treat the data of children and adolescents, health data and disability data as special categories alongside sensitive data.
- Do not process sensitive data at all unless the data subject has given explicit consent or one of the other grounds article 26 lists applies.
- Process health data only on the terms articles 30 to 32 set, and credit data only as articles 28 and 29 permit, respecting the credit data subject's own rights.
SPDP Norma General guaranteeing personal-data protection in the use of AI systemssince 4 lines
Resolución No. SPDP-SPD-2026-0009-R, Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales, 12 de febrero de 2026 · Read the law's page
- Guarantee the data subject's rights under the LOPDP, and access to the mechanisms for exercising them, where an AI system processes the data subject's personal data; a processor owes this only where it has access to, visibility of, or effective control over that data.
- Inform the data subject clearly, specifically, and transparently about personal-data processing carried out through an AI system, including its purposes.
- Before developing an AI system that will process personal data, carry out a risk-management process and, where applicable, an impact assessment.
- Maintain a record of processing activities and audit the AI system's operation in proportion to its level of risk.
Bill on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Administration of Justice (Organic Code of the Judicial Function reform)proposed5 lines
Proyecto de Ley Orgánica Reformatoria al Código Orgánico de la Función Judicial para la regulación del uso de la inteligencia artificial en la administración de justicia (Trámite No. 482649, As. Mónica Salazar), presentado 18 de junio de 2026 · Read the law's page
- This is a proposed bill and binds nobody yet. If enacted as filed, it would apply to judges, prosecutors, judicial servants and the lawyers and parties who use artificial intelligence tools in Ecuador's justice system.
- Use artificial intelligence tools only as support for case management, document analysis and organizing information, and never to replace the weighing of evidence (proposed Article 32.3).
- Verify the truthfulness, relevance and legality of information an artificial intelligence tool generates before you use it (proposed Article 32.4).
- Record expressly in the proceeding the artificial intelligence tool you used (proposed Article 32.5).
- Do not put information generated by an artificial intelligence tool into a court filing without verifying its truthfulness, relevance and currency where it could mislead the judicial authority (proposed Article 335).
Organic Law for the Development, Ethical Use and Governance of Artificial Intelligence (bill)proposed6 lines
Proyecto de Ley Orgánica para el Desarrollo, Uso Ético y Gobernanza de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Ecuador (Trámite No. 485405, As. Cecilia Baltazar), presentado 1 de septiembre de 2026 · Read the law's page
- This is a proposed bill and binds nobody yet. If enacted as filed, it would apply to anyone who develops, deploys, markets or uses an AI system whose effects occur in Ecuador, wherever that person is established (Article 3).
- Do not develop, market or put into service an AI system meant to manipulate people's behavior through subliminal or deceptive techniques that remove their capacity for informed decision, among the other practices Article 13 prohibits.
- As a developer or implementer of a generative AI system, take reasonable technical measures so that synthetic content you produce is identifiable as generated or manipulated by AI where it could pass for authentic (Article 17).
- Tell people when content they receive was generated or manipulated by an AI system (Article 8).
- If you are responsible for a high-risk system, ensure appropriate human oversight (Article 16).
- As a provider of a general-purpose AI model, keep documentation on the main categories and sources of its training data and make public a sufficiently detailed summary of those sources (Article 24).
MINTEL Ministerial Agreement — AI Regulatory Sandboxproposed0 lines
Sandbox regulatorio de inteligencia artificial, Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información, announced under the Organic Law on Digital and Audiovisual Transformation (LOTDA) and the EFIA-EC strategy (Acuerdo MINTEL-MINTEL-2025-0030)