Art. 2.2.19.3 of Decree No. 681 on national audiovisual work for users in Colombia, which implements Art. 154 of the National Development Plan 2018-2022, requires video-on-demand (VOD) platforms that operate in Colombia (such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, HBO, among others) to create an exclusive section that highlights and compiles audiovisual works of Colombian origin.

According to Art. 7 of Decree No. 2025/2015, the export of smartphones/mobile phones is prohibited, with some exceptions:
- Export is allowed if travellers carry the phones when leaving the national territory as personal possession (and no more than three units);
- In the case of temporary export;
- In case of definitive export, when they are considered waste electrical or electronic equipment;
- When the export of smartphones or mobile phones originates from a free zone within Colombia, and the products have been transformed, assembled, stored, repaired, or serviced by users of the free zone.
In addition, Art. 4 of Decree No. 2,142 modified Art. 7 of Decree No. 2,025 (chapter II), but export conditions for mobile phones remain in place.

Section 9 of Decree No. 1074 of 2015 regulates the conformity assessment procedure. There is a mandatory certification of cellular devices.
According to Art. 2.2.1.7.9.2 of the Decree, the country accepts a Self-Declaration of Conformity (SDoC). However, a testing laboratory recognised by the regulator ICONTEC (“Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación”) must test the equipment, and the supplier must register the equipment with the regulator.
Circular No. 060 deals with safety levels regarding human exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and lists the following products to be homologated: fixed-wireline desktop and wall-mounted, cellular-mobile, cellular-fixed, PCS-mobile, PCS-fixed, dual-cellular PCS, and satellite.

Art. 5 of Law No. 1,266 establishes that a personal data transfer between data bank operators is permitted when authorisation is obtained from the data subject or when the destination database has the same purpose as the operator that delivers the data. If the receiver of the data is a foreign data bank, the delivery without authorisation must be done with a written record and due verification that the laws of the recipient of the information offer guarantees for the protection of the rights of the data subject.

According to Art. 13.11 of the First Amending Protocol, which amends the Additional Protocol to the Framework Agreement of the Pacific Alliance, the four parties (Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico) commit to allowing cross-border information transfers through electronic means, including also the transfer of personal data for business activities. Moreover, in Art. 13.11 bis, the parties commit to ban forced localisation of computer facilities in their national territories.

The country has two main instruments regulating data protection: Law No. 1,581 and Decree No. 1,377. Law No. 1,581 establishes the guiding principles of data protection (such as finality, transparency, and confidentiality). Decree No. 1,377 complements and modifies Law No. 1,581. In addition, Law No. 1,266 developed the habeas data, particularly regarding financial, credit, commercial, services, and information from third countries.

Pursuant to Art. 4 of Decree No. 1,704, telecommunications providers must keep and store for a period of five years subscribers' personal information, such as identity, billing address, and connection type. This information must be available to the Attorney General or any competent authority in the context of a criminal investigation.

According to Art. 23 of Decree 1,377, controllers and processors should appoint a person or function within the company that assumes responsibility for the protection of personal data, tasked with reviewing and solving claims made by data subjects. Furthermore, Title VI of Law No. 1,581 establishes the duties of those responsible for data treatment and in charge of data treatment.

Concerns have been raised regarding the effectiveness of online copyright enforcement in Colombia. Digital piracy remains widespread, and the authorities have not significantly reduced the availability of free-to-air devices, community antenna systems, and unlicensed Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services that enable the large-scale retransmission of otherwise licensed content to non-subscribers. Stakeholders further report that piracy of licensed content via mobile applications continues to expand and constitutes an increasing challenge.

Colombia has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Colombia has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Laws No. 256, Andean Community Decision No. 486, and the Penal Code collectively constitute Colombia’s core framework for the protection of trade secrets. Arts. 260–266 of Decision No. 486 provide the principal substantive definition of "secreto empresarial", grounding protection in three cumulative elements: the information must be secret, possess commercial value by virtue of its secrecy, and be subject to reasonable measures designed to preserve its confidentiality. These provisions clarify that protectable trade secrets may relate to, inter alia, products, production processes, and methods of distribution or service delivery. They also prohibit the unauthorised acquisition, use, or disclosure of protected information in a manner contrary to honest commercial practices, characterising misappropriation as a form of unfair competition.
In addition, Art. 16 of Law No. 256 punishes the violation of trade secrets and Art. 308 of the Penal Code defines the violation of trade secrets and establishes a sanction.

According to Title IV of Resolution CRC 5050, there is an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in the country to deliver telecom services to end users. Moreover, passive infrastructure sharing is practised both in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements.

The government of Colombia holds 32.5% shares of Colombia Telecomunicaciones SA ESP, which operates under the brand Movistar and focuses mainly on the telephony and mobile connection businesses. In September 2018, the authorities reported that the State was going to sell its stake in the company, but this has not been the case yet. Some public telecommunication companies exist at the local level, as ETB (which provides services in Bogotá), EPM (in Medellín), and Metrotel (in Barranquilla).

The country does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, there has been an obligation of accounting separation since 2009. According to Arts. 64 and 65 of Law No. 1,341 "Issues principles and concepts on the information society and the organization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), creates the National Spectrum Agency [...]" (Ley No. 1341 Por la cual se definen principios y conceptos sobre la sociedad de la información y la organización de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones (TIC), se crea la Agencia Nacional de Espectro [...]), the operators must keep separate accounting. They would be subject to specific sanctions if they do not comply with the requirement.
In addition, according to Arts. 9.1.2.1. and 9.1.2.2. of Resolution 5050 of 2016 (as amended by Art. 1 of Resolution No. 5589 of 2019), Telecommunications Network and Service Providers and/or Pay TV Operators are obliged to adopt separate accounting schemes in compliance with Art. 22 (numeral 19) and Art. 64 (numeral 8) of Law No. 1,341 of 2009.