Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (LexBlog Ecuador)

The Ecuadorian National Assembly has unanimously approved the Organic Law on Data Protection, which President Moreno is expected to sign.

Ecuador is seeking to pass a data protection bill in the wake of a massive data breach that resulted in the personal data of up to 20 million people being made available online.

On May 18, 2018, after receiving a notice from the Government of Ecuador terminating that country’s bilateral investment treaty with the United States, the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Trade Representative announced the termination in the Federal Register.  The treaty has been in force since 1997. Under the treaty’s own terms, Ecuadorean nationals and...