Work Area: Data privacy

Argentina's government has prevented Facebook from rolling out its updated WhatsApp privacy policy until the country’s competition authority has completed an investigation assessing whether the terms of service are anticompetitive.

21 May 2021

Panama’s new data protection law is loosely based on GDPR, but it offers wide exemptions for big tech companies and the financial sector.

26 April 2021

Brazil’s Lefosse Advogados has promoted four lawyers to partner and three to counsel, strengthening its labour, M&A, tax, technology and restructuring practices.

16 April 2021

A São Paulo court has stayed a partial award in a multibillion-dollar International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) dispute over the sale of a pulp maker while it considers allegations that the arbitration has been tainted by cyber hacking.

14 April 2021

A deal between Brazil’s data watchdog and its consumer protection agency should provide more clarity to the private sector.

06 April 2021

Two lawyers from Chilean Latin Lawyer Elite firm Carey have left to launch privacy and technology boutique BitLaw.

31 March 2021

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados has helped the Brazilian subsidiary of Italian-American group Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) partner with telecoms group TIM Brazil for a project that will integrate state-of-the-art technology exclusively in vehicles manufactured in Brazil.

23 November 2020

Spanish firm ECIJA has added to its existing footprint in Latin America by recruiting five partners in Brazil, including hires from Schmidt, Valois, Miranda, Ferreira, Agel Advogados and Veirano Advogados, and one partner from Aguilar Castillo Love (Costa Rica), while also absorbing a firm in Guatemala.

06 November 2020

Garrigues in Chile, Colombia and Peru and Ecuador’s Pérez Bustamante & Ponce have helped Chilean telecoms company Grupo Gtd’s Peruvian subsidiary acquire a majority stake in cybersecurity company SecureSoft.

30 October 2020

Brazil’s government has finally appointed decision-makers at its Data Protection Authority (DPA) – but observers say the military-laden board, which has little experience with data privacy, might not properly enforce Brazil's new data privacy legislation (LGPD).

29 October 2020