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On June 29, the Privacy Commission published an opinion denying the U.S. embassy's request to obtain from Belgian authorities the biometric data of four individuals subject to EU sanctions.

On June 17, the Commission released an opinion on draft legislation recognizing the legitimacy of data collection for handling social and tax fraud.

The review addresses the content of the assessment, the compulsory nature of impact assessments, and stakeholders involved the process.

On September 10, the official journal published a law establishing the "Information Security Committee" to perform specific tasks regarding processing by public bodies

On June 24, the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency ("ANATEL") announced changes to its regulatory agenda (source document in Portuguese) for the rest of 2016.

The contributions will be used to draw up a map of companies and scientific and technological institutions that offer IoT technologies, products, services, and solutions in Brazil.

Currently, the RTBF is applicable in Brazil only when a former convicted criminal seeks to enforce his or her right to rehabilitation and social integration through confidentiality of criminal and prosecution records.

On May 11, Decree No. 8,771 (source document in Portuguese), an executive order regulating the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (source document in Portuguese), became effective.

Facebook immediately appealed and had the order reversed within 12 hours of the service suspension.

On March 31, the Brazilian Ministry of Justice extended the term of the public debate on the regulations governing the Internet Civil Framework until April 30 (source document in Portuguese).

The House of Representatives and Senate must pass the proposed legislation, and the President must approve the bill before it becomes official.

On December 7, 2016, a special parliamentary commission began to review a draft of the Personal Data Processing Bill No. 4060/2012.

On April 26, 2018, Brazil's National Monetary Council issued Resolution 4,656, regulating credit financial technologies (source document in Portuguese).

The final version will be sent as a draft decree to the Presidency of the Republic.

On September 30, VERT and Suntech, two of the main cybersecurity and surveillance companies in Brazil, formalized a partnership (source document in Portuguese), for the optimization of client engagement, security intelligence, fraud management, and risk conformity products.

The draft text will be discussed during committee meetings and is pending adoption by the EU Parliament and the Council.

The Amendments respond to a November 2013 Supreme Court of Canada case that provisionally invalidated PIPA on the basis that it infringed trade unions' freedom of expression.