Dear clients and collaborators, Considering the situation regarding Coronavirus in Brazil and worldwide, EAA | Escanhoela Advogados Associados has adopted several methods, with the purpose of helping to prevent the propagation of the sickness and to ensure the welfare and safety of our professionals and clients, as well as of their families.

The General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD) is applicable to all persons, both individuals and corporate entities, that perform any form of personal data processing (...). Therefore, to make possible the correct measure of the applicability of the LGPD, as well as to determine to which operations its dispositions are applicable and which obligations are attributed to those responsible for such operations, first we must understand what the legislation determines as data processing. (...)

The lawmaker’s concern with the protection of personal data is not recent, such that the idea of protection of privacy and private life is express on the list of fundamental guarantees of the Federal Constitution (Article 5, X, Federal Constitution), besides indications with the same view, even if tenuously, in uncodified law, such as the Consumer Protection Code and the Internet Civil Mark. However, the General Personal Data Protection Law – LGPDP, which will enter in force in 2020, will delimit other aspects of the theme, which is why the adaptation procedure by companies, for the compliance with the legal rules is needed, avoiding the future application of penalties. (...)