Tiago Félix da Costa and Maria da Assunção da Cunha Reis publish an article on the application of the GDPR in Portugal

Tiago Félix da Costa and Maria da Assunção da Cunha Reis briefly analyse the application of the GDPR in Portugal in an article in the latest edition of The In-House Lawyer magazine, a Legalease publication.

“From our experience, the Portuguese data supervisory authority (the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados – CNPD) has been playing areactive role, rather than an active one.

As a team also focused on regulatory litigation relating to non-compliance with the GDPR, we can conclude that so far CNPD acts mainly when confronted with complaints from data subjects, rather than proceeding with broad inspections on businesses and then applying measures deemed as necessary or initiating proceedings for violations of the GDPR as a result to those previous inspections.”

Read the article in full below.