Brazilian national data protection authority and the overview of personal data protection policies

• Autor(a) principal: REYMÃO, ANA ELIZABETH NEIRÃO
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Lis Arrais, Koury, Suzy Elizabeth Cavalcante
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista do Direito Público
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/direitopub/article/view/46105
• topic: ANPD; LGPD; governança corporativa; compliance; prevenção

This paper discusses the importance of data protection corporate governance, highlighting the preventive and educational role of the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD). Based on the analysis of Federal Law no 13.709/2018, the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), the paper argues that a fundamental attribute of this Authority is the encouragement of good practices, the compliance or corporate governance to protect personal data by private companies, as well as the supervision of the compliance of these practices with the legal provision. This is an applied research, with a qualitative approach, using as procedures the bibliographic survey and document analysis. It is concluded by the important role of accountability, a basic principle of corporate governance of data protection programs in companies, which must demonstrate the compliance and effectiveness of these programs, as well as be encouraged by the ANPD to adopt technical standards that facilitate the control of data. data by their holders, preventing their misuse by private agents.