About the IAPP

Rafael Zanatta is the director of the Data Privacy Brasil Research Association, the main non-profit organization of data protection in Brazil. He holds a master's degree in Legal Theory from the University of São Paulo Law School and is a doctoral candidate at the same University, focusing on diffuse rights and data protection. Zanatta also holds a Master in Law and Economics from the University of Turin. He was a student of the Privacy Law and Policy Course at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting researcher at The New School. Zanatta is a member of the Latin American Network for Surveillance, Technology and Society (Lavits) and the Brazilian Institute of Civil Liability (Iberc). He is an effective member of the Special Commission for the Defense of the Rights of Children and Adolescents of the Brazilian Bar Association (2022-2025).

Data Privacy Brazil is part of OECD'S CSISAC, the Civil Society Forum of the Ibero-American Network of Data Protection and the National Council of the Brazilian Data Protection Authority. Before founding the NGO with Bruno Bioni and Renato Leite Monteiro, Zanatta was the leader of the digital rights program of the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense, where he led pioneering privacy class actions in Brazil. With a strong background in data protection and consumer defense, Zanatta was also a member of the Technology and Consumers Rights Working Group of the Ministry of Justice in Brazil.