Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) General Coordination for Regulation hosted a webinar on the morning of May 15 to present the results of the Public Input Process on Artificial Intelligence and the Review of Automated Decisions, held between November 6, 2024 and January 24, 2025. The contributions were consolidated into a Technical Note, with the goal of ensuring transparency in the process and providing input for future regulations.
The event brought together members of the ANPD's senior leadership, including the Agency Director, the General Coordinator for Regulation, and the Regulation Coordinator, as well as representatives from civil society and the private sector. During the opening remarks, it was highlighted that the more than two thousand pages of submissions reflect the views of various sectors from nearly every region of the country on the use of AI in the processing of personal data.
In total, 124 submissions were received, 61% of which originated from the Southeast Region. Among the participants, 56% represent data controllers and processors, and half belong to the Third Sector, while 7% of the contributions came from foreign entities. The consultation was organized around 15 questions divided into four thematic blocks: LGPD (Brazil's General Data Protection Law) principles, legal bases for processing, data subjects' rights, and best practices and governance — with responses grouped according to areas of convergence and divergence.
The initiative is considered essential for guiding the development of regulations governing the review of decisions made exclusively by automated systems, a topic of growing relevance given the increasing adoption of AI technologies that rely heavily on personal data for model training. With the results now in hand, the ANPD has the technical grounding needed to strengthen the regulatory framework in this area.
This post was summarized from its original version using AI, with human review.
Source: ANPD