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Privacy and Data Protection Alert - November 2025

November 5, 2025

REGULATIONS OF THE EMERGENCY DECREE APPROVING THE DIGITAL TRUST FRAMEWORK

On November 5, 2025, Supreme Decree No. 126-2025-PCM was published, approving the Regulations of Emergency Decree No. 007-2020, which established the digital trust framework and stipulated measures for its strengthening. 

The following provisions are noteworthy: 

  • The Regulations apply, among others, to private sector companies that provide digital services through the Internet or other equivalent networks within the national territory.
  • The Regulations aim to develop the regulatory provisions to ensure that individuals' digital interactions with digital services provided within the national territory are truthful, predictable, ethical, proactive, transparent, secure, inclusive, reliable, and of high quality.
  • In this regard, digital service providers (digital service providers in the financial sector, basic services (electricity, water, and gas), healthcare, and passenger transport, internet service providers, providers of critical activities, and providers of educational services delivered in the digital environment) have the following obligations, among others:
    • Notify the National Center for Digital Security of digital security incidents through the established protocols, channels, and timeframes.
    • Implement security controls and measures in the provision of digital services.
    • Establish authentication mechanisms to verify the identity of individuals accessing a digital service, considering the levels of trust in authentication.
    • Maintain a secure, scalable, and interoperable infrastructure to guarantee the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of digital services.
    • Provide digital or electronic payment services with appropriate security mechanisms, where applicable.
    • Proactively conduct vulnerability assessments of digital services to identify digital security risks.
    • Promote digital innovation as an integral element for reducing digital security risks to an acceptable level.

The implementation of the aforementioned security measures must comply with the provisions of the Personal Data Protection Law.