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...

Hard to believe it, but we’re only days away from a fateful vote in California on what’s called Proposition 24. If approved by the residents of California, Prop 24 will put the California Privacy Rights Act on the books. The law will add an additional layer of privacy protections for California resi...

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....

With only a week until what might be the most important U.S. election in a generation, tensions across the United States are running high. True, the big focus for the nation is on the presidential election, while a selection of closely contested and equally significant U.S. Senate races also hang in...

Germany has a data protection landscape that is far more complex than its sister EU member states. Owing to its constitution and federal construct, several political and policy areas, such as education and culture, are decentralized to the 16 state ("Landes") levels. One such remit is the regulator...