News & Recent Work

Ricardo Barretto Ferreira

New e-book Information Security

We are excited to announce the release of our e-book focused on Cybersecurity and Data Protection, crafted by law specialists specifically for companies. ...

Measures to Combat Piracy and Irregularities in the Electronic Commerce of Telecommunications Equipment

For a long time, the National Telecommunications Agency (“Anatel”) has been consistently and firmly acting to combat piracy in the scope of telecommunications services, as well as to exclude from the market devices in non-compliance with the sector’s regulatory...

How did a cyber blackout at a single company affected the entire world?

What happened? Affecting banking, transportation, healthcare, and telecommunications systems across multiple countries, an incident at a cybersecurity company once again demonstrated that no cyber-system is...

MPF (Prosecution Office) and IDEC (Consumer Defense Institute) request a billion-real fine against WhatsApp for violating data subjects’ rights

In a public civil action (5018090-42.2024.4.03.6100) filed this Tuesday (07/16) at the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region in São Paulo, the MPF and IDEC request compensation of BRL 1.7 billion for collective moral damages, because of a violation of the data subjects’...

ANPD approves a Regulation on the Role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)

The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) approved and published, on Tuesday (07/16), the Regulation on the role of the Data Protection Officer - CD_ANPD Resolution No. 18, of July 16, 2024, published on the Brazilian Official Gazette (DOU) of July 17, 2024 - a role created...

In brief: telecoms regulation in Brazil

Regulatory and institutional structure Summarise the regulatory framework for the communications sector. Do any foreign ownership restrictions apply to communications...

AI and Personal Data | How may ANPD’s decision against Meta’s Privacy Policy affect you?

Do you or your company use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, or other Meta products? Does your business use AI and process personal data? Then do not miss reading this article, whether to learn about your rights as a personal data subject or to protect your company from...

Brazil now has a legal framework for electronic games

Do you or your company operate in the electronic games’ market? If so, be aware of the new law that establishes the legal framework for electronic games in Brazil, which is already in force with a robust set of rules for compliance and protection of the rights of children and...
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