Licks Attorneys’ Compliance Blog

The Transparency International is a non-profit anti-corruption organization headquartered on Berlin that operates internationally. Its purpose is to combat corruption and criminal activities related to corrupt acts.

In the early 2000s, when a company was asked if there was a compliance program in force, the answer would be the existence of a Code of Ethics or Conduct. If that was the case and there was a compliance program, the company could boast this as a hallmark.

While Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) struggles to meet its General Data Protection Act (LGPD) regulatory schedule for the two-year period of 2021 and 2022, Europe is making strides in regulating and guiding various aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as shown below.

Considering the hardships the world is going through, recently paralyzed by one of the biggest pandemics in history which, claimed the lives of millions of people millions of companies that could not bear the burden of shutdowns and were not prepared for working remotely, it has become necessary to draw attention to something that many companies despise: the habit of performing risk assessments.

After moments of great suffering when not only Brazil but the world was faced with a lethal pandemic resulting in the death of millions, life begins to return to normal. The economic issues caused by the pandemic in addition to the health injuries of citizens show the dramatic social abyss, which is engulfing mainly the lower-middle classes in Brazil. Economic markers, GDP below the target, and galloping inflation demonstrate that the ghost of recession is more realistic than we’d like.