On December 7, 2016, a special parliamentary commission began to review a draft of the Personal Data Processing Bill No. 4060/2012 (source document in Portuguese). The bill, along with the Data Privacy Law No. 5276/2016, aims to protect individual rights as they relate to freedom, privacy, and intimacy in the processing of personal data.

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