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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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