The United States Supreme Court ruled, in Trump v. Slaughter, on June 29, 2026, that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) independence from the President is unconstitutional. Although the ruling concerns the FTC’s independence, it has raised concern over its possible effects on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), currently the main legal basis for transferring […]
Cases in which police authorities request geolocation data from service providers relating to the site of a crime are becoming increasingly common. In this type of investigation, the usual order is reversed: instead of starting from a suspect to verify where they were, investigators start from the crime scene and from who passed through it […]
The National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) has concluded the first phase of two monitoring processes assessing how public bodies and companies have been complying with two obligations set out in the LGPD: the formal appointment of an officer in charge of data processing and the provision of a communication channel accessible to data subjects. In […]
The National Data Protection Agency (ANPD) has opened an Administrative Sanctioning Proceeding against the Instituto Saúde e Cidadania (Isac), a social organization responsible for managing public health facilities in states such as Goiás, Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia, Alagoas, Piauí, and Tocantins. The case originated from a ransomware attack that occurred in 2025 and was […]