translated from Spanish: Room approves idea of legislating on ban on reporting debts for education

As the subject of indications, the draft amending the law on the protection of private life with the aim of safeguarding information on debts incurred to finance educational services, returned to the Education Commission.The first report, submitted to the Chamber by MEP Camila Rojas (Comunes), reports that the project consists of a single article that states that as information related to debts incurred with public or private companies of electricity, water, telephone and gas, cannot be seen with higher education institutions either. The standard, generally approved by 117 votes, also includes those acquired with banks or financial institutions or within the framework of student funding lines for higher education studies, administered by the Promotion of Production (Corfo), nor any debt incurred in order to receive for themselves or for third parties an educational service at any of its levels. The draft includes a transitional article stating that these provisions will take effect within 180 days of the publication of the law, the date from which those responsible for the records or banks of personal data that store and communicate this type of information should delete all related data. BackgroundThe project, originated in the Senate, presents as a background that according to the latest report Deuda Morosa, published by DICOM in the second quarter of 2018, there were more than 4 million 480 thousand delinquent debtors in our country. Of that total, 4% were under the “teaching” section, i.e. almost 180,000 Chileans and Chileans were informed in DICOM for some debt derived from the provision of educational servicesOn the other hand, the motion provides a history of Fundación Sol, where it was notes that according to data provided by the Superintendency of Banks and Financial Institutions (SBIF), on loans granted by Banking (CAE, Corfo or through own resources) to finance higher education, it can be observed that in March 2010 recorded around 270,000 young people in debt totaling $894 billion ($0.89 billion), a figure that tripled in December 2017, where 616,000 young people are in debt totaling $2.62 billion (million).



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