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Sep 22, 2020, 8 tweets

Find out more about our reports on The State of Communications Privacy Laws in Latam and Spain! In this 2020 update, we delve into countries' trends, standards, and loopholes through a detailed set of questions and answers 1/ necessaryandproportionate.org/country-report…

@EFF Stay tuned! This is the first in a series of blog posts on our main findings and recommendations. The first piece looks into data protection developments in the region 2/ eff.org/deeplinks/2020…

@EFF Contemporary developments in European data protection law continue to have an enormous influence in Latam—in particular, the EU's 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 3/

@EFF Panama's law, approved in 2019, will be enforced starting in March 2021. Brazil's law came into effect last Friday after the country's Senate successfully stopped a presidential deferral. 4/

@EFF However, Latin America lags on a comprehensive data protection regime that applies to the processing of personal data by law enforcement agencies. 5/

@EFF Mexico is the only country with a specific data protection regulation for the public sector. Peru and Panama exclude law enforcement agencies from the scope of their data protection laws. 6/

@EFF Brazil's law lays down that specific legislation has to be approved to regulate personal data processing solely for public safety, national security, and criminal investigations purposes. 7/

@EFF As our analysis stresses, communication privacy has much to gain with the intersection of its traditional safeguards and the data protection toolkit. Read more: eff.org/deeplinks/2020…

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