Recently, On December 13, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) announced the beginning of a procedure against 20 companies to investigate potential noncompliance with obligations related to the Data Protection Officer. These companies, operating in various sectors such as telecommunications, retail, social media, aviation, and food

Recently, on December 9, the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (“Brazilian DPA” or “ANPD”) approved its Regulatory Agenda for the 2025-2026 biennium, establishing the priority topics to be addressed by the ANPD during this period. In the new Regulatory Agenda, the Brazilian DPA maintained its operations divided into four phases. Phase

Recently, the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance (“SPA/MF”) published Ordinance n. 1,857/2024 (“Ordinance”), creating transitional rules for online betting sites that requested the license to provide their services in Brazil. The Ordinance established procedures and rules for migrating data and funds from the websites currently

Yesterday, on November 6, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) launched a Call for Contributions to gather public input on its regulatory project for Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection in the context of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (“LGPD”). The scope also includes the

Today’s edition of the Federal Official Gazette published a decision by the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”), imposing sanctions for non-compliance with the General Data Protection Law (“LGPD”) on yet another public entity, the Ministry of Health. In this case, the ANPD found that the entity

On October 31, the Prizes and Betting Office of the Ministry of Finance (“SPA/MF”) submitted a second blocking request in Brazil for betting sites operating without having applied for a license from the Ministry of Finance. This second blocking list includes more than 1,400 betting sites not included in the

On November 4, 2024, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (“ANPD” or “Brazilian DPA”) initiated a sanctioning administrative procedure against TikTok to investigate possible irregularity in the processing of minors’ personal data mainly due to the absence of age verification mechanisms. The Brazilian DPA is particularly concerned about a feature

Partner Gustavo Coelho and associate Fernando Naegele participated in the contribution submitted by the Antitrust Law Commission of the Rio de Janeiro State Bar Association (“CDCOR”) in the Call for Contributions for the economic and competition regulation of digital platforms conducted by the Ministry of Finance. Gustavo and Fernando are,