This is the second part of a series focusing on the top-five operational impacts of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais. The first part, written by IAPP Westin Research Fellow Sarah Rippy, examined the practical definitions and categorizations of da...

The sudden implementation of Brazil's General Data Protection Law proved dizzying for the local and global privacy communities alike. While there continues to be a learning curve and much to sort out under the law, privacy professionals are, in fact, pleased with the progress taking place in Brazil....

The Philippines' National Privacy Commission will assume the lead role in a Global Privacy Assembly working group focused on advancing privacy discussions amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manila Bulletin reports. "We are continuing this engagement and collaboration to provide the community and our st...

In the inaugural Privacy column for Communications of the ACM, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Science, Engineering, Public Policy and CyLab Director Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT, writes privacy-enhancing technologies might be ideal for contact-tracing and exposure notification applications used to...

In this week's global legislative roundup, learn about the recent developments in California, including testimony made by Attorney General Xavier Becerra during a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing and bills passed by the state Legislature. The National People's Co...