The General Personal Data Protection Law (Portuguese: Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or LGPD; Lei 13709/2018), is a statutory law on data protection and privacy in the Federative Republic of Brazil.
The regulations differ on the legal basis for processing data, where the LGPD additionally includes carrying out research studies and protecting credit ratings.
[2][10] In 2015, the Brazilian Government issued the Preliminary Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data and submitted it to public consultation, before being sent to Congress for discussion and vote.
[13] On April 29, 2020, President Jair Bolsonaro issued Provisional Measure 959 that postponed the effective date of the LGPD to May 3, 2021.
On August 26, 2020, The Chamber of Deputies, Brazil's lower house, amended the measure to make the LGPD take effect on December 31, 2020.