Brazil, Data Security, Data Collection

ANPD’s Compiled Technical Notes In 2023

Mayer Brown on 2/2/2024

In 2023, the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD) made public several Technical Notes, with the aim of increasing transparency on ANPD actions on several matters, and to provide guidance on specific topics in the...more

Last Part of the Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD) – Administrative Sanctions – Takes Effect August 1, 2021

Littler on 7/30/2021

Starting August 1, 2021, the Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD) will have some teeth. - The LGPD was enacted in August 2018, but its provisions were scheduled to take effect in three separate phases....more

Brazil’s Comprehensive Privacy Law Now in Effect

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 9/29/2020

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Brazil’s LGPD Poised to Take Effect in a Matter of Days

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/2/2020

Brazil’s long-anticipated data protection law, Lei Geral De Proteção de Dados Pessoais (“General Law for Data Protection” or “LGPD”), now appears positioned to take effect in a matter of days. Ever since the law was...more

Brazil’s LGPD Data Privacy Law to Become Effective Any Day

Jackson Walker on 8/28/2020

While it appeared that Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), which was inspired by Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was going to be postponed until 2021, that is no longer the case. In a shocking...more

Brazil’s New Privacy Law One Year Away

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/21/2019

Global corporations will soon have another privacy law acronym to address. In one year (August 2020), Brazil will join the fray with its own general privacy law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessaoais (General Data...more