CyberBRICS: challenges and opportunities for data protection in the BRICS

BRICS are developing or enacting data protection frameworks that will soon affect almost 50% of the world’s population and almost 40% of existing Internet users, who live in the BRICS. This panel discussion analysed the advancements and challenges regarding the most recent privacy and data protection developments in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). This session was the first event of the CyberBRICS project and took place at the 2019 edition of International Conference on Computers Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP 2019).