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They must also keep available to the prosecutor, in confidence, a list of their authorised IP ranges and a register, not less than one year, of the IP numbers of their subscribers’ connections, destroying it securely afterwards. Article 30 of the intelligence law (Law 19,974) obliges anyone shown a judicial order to comply at once. Whether a VPN operator is an internet service provider under article 222 is not established.

The personal data protection law (Law 21,719) creates a data protection agency; its amendments to the existing privacy law take effect on the first day of the twenty-fourth month after its publication on 13 December 2024.

Internet access providers may not arbitrarily block, interfere with, discriminate against or restrict any user’s use of lawful content, applications or services; they may block specific content only at the user’s express request and expense (art. 24 H of Law 18,168).

Court-ordered blocking sits in the copyright law (Law 17,336, arts. 85 Q–85 R). A civil court may order infringing content removed or blocked; against a provider that only transmits or routes traffic it may order only reasonable measures to block a clearly identified infringing item without blocking other legitimate content.

The Penal Code punishes calumnia, the imputation of a specific false offence prosecutable ex officio (art. 412), and injuria, any expression or act in dishonour, discredit or contempt of another (art. 416). Calumny spread in writing and publicly, where a crimen is imputed, carries reclusión menor in its medium degree and a fine of eleven to twenty monthly tax units (art. 413); proving the imputed offence exempts the accused (art. 415).

Under article 222 an interception order must name the means to be intercepted, such as telephone numbers, IP addresses or mailboxes, and providers hold the one-year IP register for the prosecutor. Law 21,459 of 2022 separately punishes attacks on information systems, illicit access and illicit interception (arts. 1–3).

Under the State Intelligence System law (Law 19,974), the services may intercept communications or intervene computer systems only with judicial authorisation (arts. 24–25). A Supreme Court minister grants it: one of two designated by the Plenary for two years, renewable once, who must decide within forty-eight hours (art. 26), without hearing the person affected (art. 28).

External control belongs to the Comptroller General, the courts and the Chamber of Deputies (art. 36), which sets up a special commission on the services’ reports (art. 37). The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.