ANPD publishes the first edition of the Priority Themes Map, which sets out its main lines of action until 2025

ANPD publishes the first edition of the Priority Themes Map, which sets out its main lines of action until 2025

On December 2023, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published the first edition of its Map of Priority Themes (MTP) for the 2024-2025 biennium. The document sets out four areas of action that will be prioritized for the purposes of studies and planning of the ANPD’s enforcement activities over the next two years, and also contains a timetable for implementing the objectives.

In the first highlight, the ANPD brings up the topic of the rights of holders. Its aim is to carry out enforcement actions in the field of data processing by public authorities, digital platforms, the financial sector and the telecommunications sector. To this end, it seeks to work together with the Central Bank, the National Telecommunications Agency and the National Consumer Secretariat.

Next, the MTP looks at the issue of the processing of personal data of children and adolescents in the digital environment. It focuses on enforcement actions to safeguard the rights, protection of personal data and best interests of children and adolescents in the digital environment, including: verification of the compatibility with the LGPD of the processing of children’s and adolescents’ data by platforms; and measures to verify consent or verify the age of users.

Thirdly, the ANPD is analyzing artificial intelligence for facial recognition and the processing of personal data, in order to identify potential risks in the processing of data within the scope of facial recognition systems and to ensure compliance with the LGPD in the processing of biometric data. In this regard, it plans to monitor such systems, especially when they are used in areas accessible to the public and reach a significant number of data subjects or vulnerable groups, including children and adolescents.

The concluding theme of the MTP is data scraping and data aggregators. These practices generally consist of techniques in which a computer program extracts data from the results generated by another program, creating a new database. Here, the ANPD plans, in addition to monitoring, to consolidate the parameters and guidelines for data processing in the practice of scraping and aggregation, under the terms of the LGPD.

The ANPD’s MTP can be accessed via the link: https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-cd/anpd-n-10-de-5-de-dezembro-de-2023-530258528

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