While Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) struggles to meet its General DataProtection Act (LGPD) regulatory schedule for the two-year period of 2021 and2022, Europe is making strides in regulating and guiding various aspects of the GeneralData Protection Regulation (GDPR), as shown below.

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There is a growing global concern regarding the protection of personal data for individuals, given the rapid technological advances that geographically universalize information and could have considerable impacts on citizens' lives. Brazil, following the global trend, enacted its General Data Protection Act (LGPD) in August 2018, which came into force in September 2020, except for its penalties, which only came into force in August 2021.

In Brazil the concept of the whistleblower continues to be ignored –  as having been incorporated into our legal system by former Minister Sérgio Moro's anti-crime package, approved by the National Congress underStatute 13,964 of December 24, 2019 (which utilizes the definition of informant rather than the North American definition of whistleblower) – along with the benefits that its employment could bring to the country, especially in the fight against corruption. While the United States, at the end of 2022, have just passed the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act, making significant progress in the battle against money laundering.

In a memorable initiative, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) developed, in 2007, the Best Practices in the Fight Against Corruption project, of which several countries took part, including Brazil.

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Although ESG (which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance) is a popular topic, few are aware of the document “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights”. Launched in 2011 by the United Nations, the text has influenced countless laws in several countries around the world to this day.

Amid hackers, crackers and several other cyber threats such as viruses, malware, ransomware, phishing, and the like, VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have been the sweethearts of the information technology departments for large, medium and small companies. They enable secure remote access for users, protecting their browsing data, especially from identification of their IP address (identification number of a device connected to the Internet), through encryption.

Now under the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has published, on March 3, 2023, an update to its guide for evaluating compliance programs. It assists prosecutors in this task, allowing them to identify whether the program is efficient at the time of the offense and whether it is effective at the time of a charging decision or resolution.

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.

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On October 22, 2020, the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the largest reward payment ever made to a whistleblower in the United States, of US$ 114 million, more than R$ 650 million at current values. Much more than the often dreamed of mega-sena lottery in Brazil. Since its first award, the SEC has paid $ 676 million to 108 whistleblowers.