Brazil proposes postponement of data protection law

Brazil’s Senate has approved a bill that would postpone the entry into force of the General Data Protection Law (known by its Portuguese acronym LGPD), but companies are advised to continue to prepare for its enactment, accordng to law firm Demarest Advogados.

The bill will now go to a vote in the country’s lower house, or congress, from where it will pass to Presient Jair Bolsonaro for ratification.

Senator Antonio Anastasia presented bill No. 1179/2020, which establishes transitional and emergency rules for the regulation of laws relations during the Covid-19 pandemic. The bill proposes to extend the entry into force of the LGPD to January 1, 2021, with the application of sanctions for violation of the law applicable from August 2021.

Demarest advised in a note that the entry into force of the LGPD has not yet been definitively extended.

“Our privacy and cybersecurity team is closely monitoring the processing of the bill and will keep its clients informed of any change,” according to the law firm’s note, authored by Tatiana Campello (pictured), head of the intellectual property and innovation and data privacy and cybersecurity areas, and Vanessa Ferro, a member of Demarest’s data privacy and cybersecurity practice.

We highlight the importance of companies continuing to prepare for the entry into force of the LGPD, even if the deadline is postponed. We know that it is a long process of adaptation and the market is already beginning to demand such changes, even without the entry into force of the LGPD.