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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