# Ecuador

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Ecuador
- **ISO code**: EC
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / South America

## In brief

Ecuador has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, 1 of them binding. AI bill under consideration; data-protection law applies; national AI policy in development. Regulators include Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información (MINTEL), Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales.

## Overview

Ecuador's National Assembly has been considering an Organic Law for the Regulation and Promotion of Artificial Intelligence (introduced 2024) that would set a risk-based framework, and the Ministry of Telecommunications published an AI policy framework in 2025; the Personal Data Protection Law (2021) and its Superintendency apply to AI processing personal data.

## Regulatory status

AI bill under consideration; data-protection law applies; national AI policy in development.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: Draft Organic Law on AI. Strategy or guidance: none recorded.

## Regulators

- Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información (MINTEL) — Digital and AI policy lead — https://www.telecomunicaciones.gob.ec/
- Superintendencia de Protección de Datos Personales — Data-protection authority — https://www.spdp.gob.ec/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador — Asamblea Nacional — https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Proyecto de Ley Orgánica de Regulación y Promoción de la Inteligencia Artificial** — Bill, Proposed, binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ecuador-draft-organic-law-on-artificial-intelligence
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/ecuador-draft-organic-law-on-artificial-intelligence.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/ecuador
- **Official source**: https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ec/
- **Source document**: Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador
- **Published by**: Asamblea Nacional
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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