Bolivia has not implemented a comprehensive data protection law. However, personal data is regulated in certain sectoral laws, including:
- the General Law of Telecommunications, Information, and Communication Technologies;
- the General Law on Consumer Rights (Art. 40);
- the Financial Services Law (Art. 475);
- the Digital Citizenship Law (Art. 12).

It is reported that a basic legal framework on intermediary liability for copyright infringement is absent in Bolivia's law and jurisprudence.

It is reported that a basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in Bolivia's law and jurisprudence.

Art. 5 of Supreme Decree No. 353 provides that owners of mobile terminal equipment, as well as account holders, must register in the Registers referred to in Art. 4 either by electronic means (including websites, SMS, email, and similar channels) or by appearing in person at the offices of their service provider, and that where registration is carried out electronically, information relating to personal identity shall be verified against other public registers; Art. 4 further provides that these Registers shall contain, in the case of the Register of Ownership of Mobile Terminal Equipment, the name of the owner, the number of the personal identification document, and the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) code or its equivalent, and, in the case of the Nominal Register of Account Holders, the name of the account holder, the number of the personal identification document, and the telephone number.

Bolivia has signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty in December 1996, but has not ratified it.

Bolivia lacks a comprehensive regime for the protection of trade secrets.

According to Art. 21 of the General Telecommunications, Information and Communication Technologies Law, there is a passive infrastructure sharing obligation both in the fixed and mobile sectors.

There is a limitation on foreign equity participation in the government‑controlled telecommunications company Entel, which was nationalised by Supreme Decree No. 29544. Art. 19 of Law No. 516 stipulates that the assets and investments recovered through nationalisation processes undertaken by the State for the recovery of natural resources and strategic sectors may not, under any circumstances, be privatised in any form.

According to the Supreme Decree No. 29544, the State of Bolivia nationalised the share package held by the company ETI EURO TELECOM INTERNATIONAL NV in Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones Sociedad Anónima - ENTEL S.A.A. The Bolivian State owns 97.5% of the shares of ENTEL, while the other 2.5% is owned by minority shareholders. In addition, according to Art. 19 of Law No. 516, assets and investments recovered as a result of the nationalisation processes carried out by the State may not be privatised under any modality.

Art. 31 of Supreme Decree No. 0181 stipulates that, in the procurement of goods and services through public tender procedures and the Support for National Production and Employment (ANPE) modality, a preference margin of 20% shall be applied to the bid price submitted by micro‑ and small‑sized enterprises, associations of small-scale urban and rural producers, peasant economic organisations, and artisans. The numerical adjustment factor applicable in such cases shall be 0.80. In addition, these entities may also benefit from the preference margins established under Art. 30.

The country does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, according to Art. 45 of the General Telecommunications, Information, and Communication Technologies Law, accounting separation is mandated since 2011.

Art. 87 Bis of Supreme Decree No. 0181 stipulates that, where a contract is awarded to a foreign bidder, the latter shall be required to subcontract national enterprises, provided that such enterprises are available within the domestic market

It is reported that, although regulations exist in the field of public procurement, their implementation remains insufficiently transparent. More broadly, the tendering process is marked by opacity and serves as a barrier to effective participation. Government requirements and tender specifications are not always clearly defined, and procurement notices are not consistently made publicly available.

Bolivia is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), nor does it have observer status.

There is a limitation on foreign equity participation in the government‑controlled telecommunications company Entel, which was nationalised by Supreme Decree No. 29544. Art. 19 of Law No. 516 stipulates that the assets and investments recovered through nationalisation processes undertaken by the State for the recovery of natural resources and strategic sectors may not, under any circumstances, be privatised in any form.