The General Law Principles for Protection the Personal Data and their Importance
It addresses data protection challenges in Brazil, but is incremental as it focuses on explaining an existing law rather than proposing new solutions.
This paper examines Brazil's 2018 General Law on Personal Data Protection, analyzing its principles and real-world data leakage cases to highlight its importance for internet users and broader societal benefits.
Rapid technological change and globalization have created new challenges when it comes to the protection and processing of personal data. In 2018, Brazil presented a new law that has the proposal to inform how personal data should be collected and treated, to guarantee the security and integrity of the data holder. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the principles of the General Law on Personal Data Protection, informing real cases of leakage of personal data and thus obtaining an understanding of the importance of gains that meet the interests of Internet users on the subject and its benefits to the entire Brazilian society.