The Brazilian Senate has passed a bill that postpones the deadline for companies and organizations to comply with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD) to January 2021, while punishments for non-compliance would only be enforced from August 2021 onward. The bill is still to be voted on by the House of Representatives and signed into law by President Jair Bolsonaro, but it is already raising concerns about data protection in Brazil.
Initially, the LGPD was expected to come into force in August 2020, some 18 months after its initial approval. However, Senator Antonio Anastasia, the author of the bill, considered it would be fair to postpone it for another 18 months so as “not to overwhelm companies due to the enormous technological and economic hardships that came after the pandemic.” The new deadline came as a proposal by Senator Simone Tebet, after the backlash caused by the proposal, reports newspaper Estadão.
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