With less than a year remaining before Brazil's General Data
Protection Law (referred to as the LGPD) takes effect, HR
professionals should start preparing.
The LGPD—which regulates how companies, including
employers, must process personal data such as employees'
identification numbers—takes effect Aug. 15, 2020, except for
the provisions giving authority to create the National Data Privacy
Agency (ANPD), which took effect Dec. 28, 2018.
The ANPD, however, still isn't created. The government is
optimistic that the directors will be chosen and vetted by the end
of this year, but even if that occurs, it still won't leave
much time for the agency to create the many regulations needed to
implement the law. As a result, it's possible there will be
delays in the law's implementation.
