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Innovations in the Financial Market, Privacy and Data Protection: the case of suspension of the WhatsApp Pay

About a month ago, Facebooks chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, announced, on his social networks, the launch of yet another feature of the WhatsApp application, namely the payments feature offered by Facebook Pay in Brazil, through the use of debit or credit cards from...

AEPD fines Spanish companies for violations of the principles of personal data protection

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (“AEPD”) has recently announced a series of Resolutions imposing fines on companies in different sectors, based on the violation of the GDPR and the guiding principles of personal data protection. Resolution No. PS/00104/2020, published on...

Bill No. 1133/2020 approved by the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District

In mid-April of this year, the district representative Julia Lucy (NOVO-DF) presented the Bill No. 1133/2020 which “provides for guidelines for guarantees of individual freedom and protection of personal data in intelligent monitoring to combat pandemics, and provides other...

Decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidates the Privacy Shield

On July 16, the Court of Justice of the European Union deemed as invalid the international data transfer mechanism called privacy shield between the European Union and the United States, on the grounds of insufficient minimum guarantees for data processing by the USA, including...

EDPB publishes a guide of Right to be Forgotten in light of the GDPR

On July 10, 2020, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), an independent European body that contributes to the application of personal data protection rules, published the final version of the Guidelines No. 5 of the year 2019 on the requirements and conditions for the...

OTT x Telecommunications Services

The transmission of content via internet is part of the daily life of modern society - however, behind the scenes, regulatory issues permeate quite winding roads. The regulation of content distribution of linear channels on the internet by OTT companies, directly to the...

Azevedo Sette adds disputes partner in Brazil

Azevedo Sette Advogados has boosted its arbitration and disputes resolution practice by hiring a partner from newly rebranded Mattos Engelberg Echenique...

Conversion into Law of PM 936/2020 (Labor Measures to Reduce Salaries and Working Hours and Suspension of the Employment Contract)

It was published on 07/07/2020, the Law 14,020/2020, which deals with the conversion of the PM 936/2020 published by the Federal Government to face the crisis brought by COVID-19 in the labor...
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