Data protection A new milestone for data protection in Brazil Laura Schertel Mendes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut PUBLISHED ON: 13 May 2020 As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks.