In 2010, the discussion of a General Data Protection Law started to arise in Brazil with two Public Consultations of a bill from the Executive, other bills pending in the House of the Representatives and the Senate, and the rise of countless forums that brought this subject, which had been on the back burner up until that moment, to light.

After the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, the Draft bill that had been gestated for six years at the Executive arrives at the House and becomes the object of a Special Commission led by representatives Bruna Furlan and Orlando Silva, who accelerated the processing of the matter.

A series of factors creates the perfect conjunction for the approval of the Brazilian General Data Protection Act. This scenario results in a “horse race” between two bills: the one that was pending in the Senate and was favoured by the Temer government, and the one pending in the House, which had a more significant participation from various sectors of the society.

After the LGPD’s approval, in 2019 the discussion turned towards the National Data Protection Authority, whose format, as it was proposed by Provisional Measure 869/18, did not bring the autonomy and independence desired by the actors involved in the discussion of the law.

Ever since the first Draft was presented by the Ministry of Justice in 2010 until the final legislative process in 2019, the content of the General Data Protection Law went through countless transformations and improvements, and also left some opportunities for modernization along the way.