On October 17, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) launched a Call for Contributions to gather input from society in the draft of its Regulatory Agenda for the years 2025 and 2026. The Call for Contributions was accompanied by a proposed agenda from the ANPD,

On September 24, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) published a dedicated webpage on its website with information regarding the rules for international transfers involving personal data within the scope of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (“LGPD”). The ANPD’s initiative follows the publication of

Today, the Ministry of Finance published Ordinance n. 1,475/2024 (“Ordinance”), suspending, from October 1, 2024, the services of betting sites that have not submitted their license request to the Ministry of Finance by the date of publication of the Ordinance. The license, with requirement procedures established in Ordinance n. 827/2024,

We are pleased to announce that partner Gustavo Coelho has been appointed as President of the International Business Law Commission of the International Association of Young Lawyers – AIJA for the next two years. Judith Hasler, Christine Dempe, and Daniela Jara Cruz were also elected as Vice Presidents of the

On August 30, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) published a decision revoking its Preventive Measure issued previously and allowing Meta to process personal data for the training of its generative AI models. The Preventive Measure, analyzed in this newsletter, had suspended the processing of

Recently, the Ministry of Finance’s Prizes and Betting Office, following its regulatory agenda, published four Ordinances setting forth rules for online gaming in Brazil that fall under the category of fixed-odds betting. This includes sports betting and online games with fixed-odds betting, which were also recently regulated by the Office,

Last week, the Ministry of Finance published Ordinance n. 1,207, on July 29, 2024 (“Ordinance”), establishing rules for online betting games in Brazil that fall under the fixed-odds betting category. The Ordinance aims to include these games within the scope of regulation being developed for fixed-odds betting, especially sports betting,

On July 16, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) published Resolution CD/ANPD no. 18 (“Regulation”), which sets forth the rules for the role of the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”), named “Encarregado” under the General Data Protection Law (“LGPD”), establishing the DPO and the data processing