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Ricardo Barretto Ferreira da Silva

Telecoms Series | Spectrum regulation

The radio-frequency spectrum is understood as a public good, of limited enjoyment, administered by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency - ANATEL, corresponding to the electromagnetic spectrum, whose electromagnetic waves propagate in space without an artificial...

Azevedo Sette was recognized by Chambers Latin America 2021 guide as reference in several practices

Azevedo Sette was recognized by Chambers Latin America guide as reference in several...

LGPD may take effect in the next few days and the ANPD has its regulatory structure constituted

As everyone knows, the Provisional Measure 959 (“MP 959”), which, among other matters, dealt with the validity of the LGPD, was evaluated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, August 25. At that time, MP 959 became the Bill No. 34 (“PLV 34”), and its article 4th...

VOD (Video-On-Demand) regulations

From the perspective of the entertainment industry, the expressive technological and communication changes of the last decades have increased the frontiers of expansion of the audiovisual sector, creating different formats of access to content and giving the user more power to...

VAS - Value-Added Services in the Telecommunications Sector

Technological innovations in the telecommunications sector have faced, in the past, difficulties in reaching end consumers effectively, due to the lack of adequate business models for the provision of convergent services. The expansion and success of telecommunications,...

ICO imposes a fine of £ 80,000 to a company for unsolicited marketing calls

The British Personal Data Protection Authority (ICO) released, on August 3, 2020, a fine notice to Rain Trading Ld (RTL), company responsible for making 270,774 unsolicited direct marketing calls to subscribers registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS), without...

CNI launches a booklet with guidelines on the General Data Protection Act

In early August, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) launched a booklet with relevant information for the adequacy of the productive sector to the LGPD, entitled “LGPD: what your company needs to know”. The document highlights the need for the creation of the...

State of Rio de Janeiro prohibits the use of personal data from DL platforms for purposes of commercial exploitation

On August 11, Law No. 8,973/2020 was published in the Official Gazette of Rio de Janeiro, which prohibits the use of personal data, sensitive data and metadata from users of virtual platforms of “distance learning” (DL) for the purposes of commercial exploitation....
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