The National Congress approved on (10), in a special session, an amendment that includes the protection of personal data as fundamental rights of the Brazilian Constitution. Under consideration for three years, the initiative (PEC 17/2019) says that citizens’ information in physical and digital media has the same importance and priority to be guaranteed as education, health and public safety. From this amendment, the state becomes responsible for organizing and supervising the processing of the population’s data, according to the criteria of the General Law of Data Protection (LGPD).
For our digital lawyer specialist attorney Leonardo Neri, there are basically three important implications of the change:
Procedural: the fundamental right to data protection becomes judicially discussed before the Federal Supreme Court;
Legislative: the Union will have exclusive competence to legislate on the matter;
Social: discussions about the right to have personal information protected tend to be even deeper.
“It potentiates the theme of privacy as elemental to our society that lives immersed in an immense technological revolution and, consequently, the reflections of data protection will be debated with much more depth,” he said, in a statement released to the press.
What changes with the end of the public calamity.
Today on 04/25/2022 our partner lawyer, Dr. Rafael Mello, participated in an interview for TV Cultura in the program Jornal da Tarde, and spoke about ” The Labor Impacts of the End of Public Calamity.”