Armando Lin Barsallo and his passion for law

Panamanian Armando Lin Barsallo is a lawyer, with 20 years of experience in the public and private sector, but he is also passionate about giving advice on how to take care of personal data online.

In fact, he was part of the writing team for Executive Decree no. 285 from 2021 which governs Act 81 of 2019 on the protection of personal data. Lin Barsallo shared with Panama America details about her profession and her passion for online data protection.

According to the lawyer, he chose law when he was v teenage girlbecause I greatly admired the series about good and successful lawyers that “television presented to us at the time and I deluded myself with the fact that knowing, reading, studying a lot and always helping the truth come to light was the spark that made me inclined to study the profession.. “.

In addition, he said that he enjoys working in this profession the most people“Even before we graduated, we devoted ourselves to working with foreigners, we see a lot of work migration and commercial law, so basically that attention to people, we suddenly see how we can help them stabilize or implement orderly immigration, legitimate and legal …”.

However, it also provides part details hard in this race.

“The hardest thing for me, while we devote ourselves to administrative law, is the bureaucracy that exists in some state institutions, that extra time or extra step that unnecessarily puts you in something that can often be so easy so fast but it’s good that everyone here knows the problem of bureaucracy…”, said a partner in the firm Lin Barsallo & Asociados.

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A few days after Data Protection Law in Panama reaches his two years, he believes that, since the entry into force of Act 81 from 2019 on the protection of personal data, he believes that he has what “we could have expected”.

“We were told from day zero that this is a process day after daytraining in training, developing a culture of privacy where it must be added, not subtracted,” he added.

To date, “we have been able to achieve more goals, but we are within the curve that was designed from day zero, when we started receiving training from international organizations that were and are very interested in Panama then enforces privacy protection of personal data at a high level”.

On the other hand, Lin Barsallo has launched a live project on social media to guide people on various data security issues.

These live on the protection of personal data leads a very clear purpose and try to share knowledge acquired and which are always updated in matters of privacy and protection of personal data”.

Fact

Lin Barsallo was the director Protection of personal data of the national authority transparency and access to information until February 2022.