CPDP Latam is the Latin American edition of the Conference that has existed since 2007, and is a platform for discussing privacy, data protection, and technology. It includes the Latin American editions of the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection (CPDP) Conference, MyData conference, and Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC).
The first CPDP LatAm was held in July 2021, in Rio de Janeiro, at Fundação Getulio Vargas. The conference focuses on Data Protection in Latin America, including issues on democracy, innovation, and regulation. It consists of discussions suggested by the participants and on academic articles submitted in advance and selected by the Organizing Committees, thus serving as a platform to promote the debate on and development of solutions regarding the subject.
Project Objectives
The event has a tripartite structure. The conference is divided between multisectoral debates and the analysis of innovative approaches and technologies that facilitate data protection. In parallel, following a call for papers, ongoing academic research is discussed in the closed forum of Privacy Law Scholars sessions.
This is a unique opportunity to bring together varied and complementary perspectives regarding data protection and its impact on democracy, innovation, and regulation in Latin America. To this end, the conference programme is composed of the session proposals from stakeholders.
Publications
Every year, CPDP LatAm organizes a call for papers, which are published in special editions of prestigious journals. Papers deriving from the CPDP LatAm call have been published in special editions of the Journal of International Data Privacy Law published by Oxford University Press (IDPL, articles in English) the Revista Brasileira de Direitos Fundamentais e Justiça (DF&J, articles in Portuguese and Spanish) and the Computer Law and Security Review. The selected articles cover a wide range of subjects.
Besides our yearly call for papers, CPDP LatAm also engages with the multistakeholder community to promote other types of publications, such as 2023’s discussion paper on the regulation of international data flows in Latin America.
