ROMINA GARRIDO I.
Counsel

PRACTICE AREAS

Personal Data
Cibersecurity
Artificial Intelligence

Romina Garrido leads Prieto’s Data Protection, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence practices.

An expert in Personal Data Protection and Ethics, she has been advising public and private organizations since 2008 across sectors such as healthcare, transportation, telecommunications, scientific research, and retail. Her experience includes data management strategies, technology implementation, data-driven projects, data transfer agreements, and impact assessments, among other activities. She is currently working on projects related to the implementation of the new personal data protection law.

Romina Garrido has been a speaker at various national and international conferences on topics such as Data Protection, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence, including events like the Congreso del Futuro, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Universidad de Chile, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the CPDP Conference, and other global forums.

In the academy field, she is a professor in the Data Protection Management Diploma Program at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universidad de Chile; the Master’s Program in Medical Informatics at the same university; the New Data Protection Diploma at Universidad Central; the Data Protection in the Public Sector course at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; and the Master’s Program in Digital Business at Universidad Diego Portales.

In the governmental sphere, she has served as a legislative advisor to the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, overseeing legislative processes in the National Congress. She advised the Ministry of Health on technology procurement and data protection matters. She has worked at the Library of Congress and founded the NGO Datos Protegidos. She was a member of the Legal Advisory Council for the Digital Government Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (SEGPRES) and led the subcommittee on responsibility and bias convened by the Senate’s Future Challenges Commission to support the development of AI regulations.

She participated in the expert committee and technical advisory committee for the personal data protection bill in the National Congress until its full approval and currently serves on an honorary expert committee advising the Ministry of Science on the Artificial Intelligence Bill.

Internationally, she was part of the Ibero-American Data Protection Network and was recognized by WOMCY as one of the 50 most outstanding women in cybersecurity in Latin America in 2024.

Romina Garrido joined Prieto in 2023.

EDUCATION

  • Magister in Law and New Technologies, Universidad de Chile (2016)
  • Diploma in IT Law, Universidad de Chile (2009)
  • Law Degree, Universidad de Valparaíso (2008)

AWARDS

  • 50 Outstanding Women in WOMCY, LATAM Women in Cybersecurity (2023)
  • Recognized Woman by the Chilean Cybersecurity Alliance (2019)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

  • Professor, Diploma in Personal Data Protection Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile (2024 to date)
  • Professor, Master’s Program in Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile (2019 to date)
  • Professor, Master’s Program in Digital Business, Universidad Diego Portales (2023 to date)
  • Director, Data Protection in the Public Sector Course, School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2024)
  • Professor, Diploma in New Personal Data Protection, Universidad Central (2024)
  • Professor, Diploma in Fundamentals of Information Systems for Clinical Laboratories (FLIS), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile (2024)
  • Professor, Diploma in Cybersecurity, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile (2017–2024)
  • Professor, Data Ethics, MSc Business Analytics (2020–2023)

PUBLICATIONS

  • Data Protection and Generative AI: An Inconclusive Answer. Special Issue 5. Future Shock: Grappling With the Generative AI Revolution. Harvard Data Science Review, 2024. https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/150vm8ft?readingCollection=5531bd2e
  • Algorithmic Transparency from the South: Examining the state of algorithmic transparency in Chile’s public administration algorithms. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593013.3593991
  • Algorithmic Transparency in the Public Sector. https://tinyurl.com/4v5ydtrb
  • Biometrics in Chile and its Risks. Revista Chilena de Derecho y Tecnología, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2017).
  • Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability for AI. https://tinyurl.com/4wa6w4b8
  • Necessary Consensus for the Right to Be Forgotten. Revista Latinoamericana de Protección de Datos, Vol. 3.
  • Habeas Data and Data Protection Law. Bibliotecología y Gestión de Información, 2013, No. 83.
  • Habeas Data and Data Protection Law in Chile. Know Right 2012. Interaction of Knowledge Rights, Data Protection, and Communication. 25 Years of Data Protection in Finland. November 26–28, 2012, Helsinki, Finland.
  • Security in the Processing of Personal Data. Ciudadanas 2020 III. ISBN: 9789563588668
  • Automated Decision Systems and Data Protection. Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías: El impacto de una nueva era. © THĒMIS, 2019. ISBN: 978-612-48087-0-8

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