Joining a growing list of new privacy laws around the world, Brazil now has a comprehensive national data protection regime. With the wait over, José Alejandro Bermúdez says it "will surely be the most impactful privacy development in the region since the adoption of the Iberoamerican Data Protection Standards, which was launched in Chile in 2017." However, he points out in this post for Privacy Perspectives, "These developments ... may end up fading and being inconsequential if efforts are not directed toward finding a solution for the implementation of an effective, independent, specialized and well-resourced" data protection authority. 
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