Cybersecurity and Privacy Resources
By Country

• Brazilian Federal Constitution. Last update: 2013.

• Brazilian Civil Code - Law No. 10,406/02. Last update: January 10, 2002.

• Brazilian Consumer Protection Code (CDC) - Law No. 8,078/90. Last update: September 11, 1990.

• Internet Legal Framework - Law No. 12,965/14 (Marco Civil Law of the Internet in Brazil).  Last update: April 23, 2014.

• Brazilian Criminal Code - as amended by Law No. 12,737/12

• Interception of Telephone Communication Law - Federal Law 9,296/96. Last update: July 24, 1996

• Complementary Law No. 105/01. Last update: January 10, 2001.

• Brazilian Information Access Law - Federal Law Nº 12,527/11. Last update: November 18, 2011.

• Good Payer's Registry Law - Federal Law Nº 12,414/11, amended by Complimentary Law No. 166/2019. Last update: January 9, 2011.

• General Data Protection Law ("LGPD"). Last update: August 14, 2018

• ​​Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China. Last update: November 07, 2016.

• EU General Data Protection Regulation. Last update: May 4, 2016.

• Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)

Protection of Privacy Law, 5741 – 1981 (Unofficial translation)

• Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI)

• Basic Policy for protecting Personal Information

• Enforcement Regulation of APPI

• Act on the Protection of Personal Information (Partly unenforced). Last update: 2021

• EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ). Last update: May 4, 2016.

• Regulation (EU) 2019/881

Cybersecurity Act Last Updated: February 5, 2018

• Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act)

• Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 1998. Last update: August 2, 2002.

• Consumer Protection Act, 2008. Last update: April 29, 2009.

• UK eIDAS.

• Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (PECR)

• Data Protection Act 2018.

• NIS Regulations (Network and Information Security Regulations 2018)

• Computer Misuse Act 1990. Last update: February 28, 2024.

• Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021. Last update: April 25, 2023.