APPLICABILITY OF THE GENERAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION LAW 13.709 / 18 — ADMINISTRATIVE AND CRIMINAL SANCTIONS

Abstract

The General Law on Protection of Personal Data - Law 13,709 / 18, was signed on August 14, 2018. The LGPD is based on the “General Data Protection Regulation” (GDPR), European regulation approved in May last year that has origin in PLC 53/2018, approved unanimously by the Senate Plenary in July / 2018. The new law provides for the processing of personal data by a natural person, a legal entity under public and private law. In order to protect fundamental rights, freedom and privacy, protecting, establishing rules, and limits for companies that use, store, and share data, favoring the economic development of your company, and consequently, improperly exposing the data that have. One of the principles of this law is to ensure that the data must be used only for a specific purpose, the data collected must respect the principle of minimizing collection, the data collected must be only what is necessary to achieve the purpose. The law brings more legal certainty for companies and greater protection for the rights of data subjects, it is essential to understand the concepts, relevant to this standard to understand its impacts in practice.