Judgments of the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo containing grounds in the LGPD

By: Leonardo Neri We have collected some court decisions from the Court of Justice of the State of São Paulo containing grounds in the LGPD. The following stand out: The 34th Private Law Chamber exempted Eletropaulo from compensating a customer for a data leak. The judge emphasized that the company was not at fault for the episode, which occurred due to the action of […]

Approved regulation for processing small agents in relation to LGPD

By: Leonardo Neri The approval of the processing regulation for small-scale agents in relation to the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) was published on January 28, 2022 in the Official Gazette of the Union. Based on the rules provided for in articles 55-J, XVIII, of Law No. 13,709; article 2, XVIII, Annex I of Decree No. […]

After hacking the SUS system, hackers gain access to Federal Government passwords

By Leonardo Neri The Federal Government is facing difficulties in the digital sphere. After a serious cybersecurity failure, the government is having difficulty knowing how to respond to successful hacker attacks. After accessing the ConecteSUS and Ministry of Health systems, 20 public agencies, including other ministries, were compromised. It should be noted that until […]

Major retailer's system outage results in billion-dollar drop in market value

By: Leonardo Neri There was a drastic reduction in the value of the Americanas Group to R$27.9 billion last Monday, the 21st. This amount is R$2 billion less than that found in the last market analysis carried out on February 18, 2022. This drop was exclusively due to the unavailability of the online stores of […]

PROCON/MS fines large companies for non-compliance with LGPD

By: Leonardo Neri Recently, the Superintendence for Consumer Guidance and Defense of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS), fined large national companies for non-compliance with the legal requirements demanded by the LGPD, namely: Leroy Merlin; Privália; James and Centauro. In the monitoring carried out by the regulatory body, irregularities were found in the privacy policies of the Leroy website […]

Resolution published on how ANPD inspections will work starting in 2022

The approval of the regulation of the Inspection process and the Sanctioning Administration Process by the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) was published on October 29, 2021 in the Official Gazette of the Union. Divided into four titles, the resolution addresses the General Provisions, broken down into 14 articles, which cover everything from […]

Personal data from PagSeguro in conjunction with WireCard were exposed on hacker forums and raises the issue of the legal limits of innovation

Electronic payment systems have been on the rise in recent years, pushing physical currencies into the background and, as a result, increasing the digital linkage of payments. As a result, the number of scams against banking companies has been increasing. On November 4th, it was PagSeguro’s turn to suffer the so-called registration hijackings, whose […]