The year of 2018 was outstanding for the
regulatory framework governing privacy and data protection, in Brazil and in
the world. The subject gained great significance due to the modernization of
technologies, emergence of applications and changes in social behavior. Information
became society’s new defining element, as machines and electricity once were.
Within this context, in a movement towards adequacy to social facts, in May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR came into force. Locally, we are facing Resolution 4.658, issued by Central Bank, approval of the General Data Protection Regulation in Brazil and Provisional Measure nº 869, which created the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD):
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