Welcome to the ADAPT Data Protection Advocacy Toolkit! The Toolkit is a library of useful resources to support data privacy advocates, lawyers, and other concerned actors in promoting and enforcing rights-respecting data protection legislation and individual data privacy. Resources include primers on data protection, legal analyses, case law, advocacy guides, campaign concepts and more. To find the resources most useful to you, you can filter the library using the three navigation tabs in the search below. Those tabs include:
You can also explore data protection issues, including resources, blog posts, and podcasts through our dedicated country pages for Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria by following the links above
Resources designed to inspire and guide more impactful and informed advocacy efforts, including advocacy models, campaigns, and strategies.
Materials and guides that draw on previous data protection advocacy efforts to illustrate best practices and successful approaches.
These reports, briefs, and other guides help to contextualize the current state of data protection and advocacy in specific countries.
Explainers and overviews of the laws, regulations, and policies that specifically govern data protection.
Campaigns, reports, white papers, and other materials that involve direct engagement with government bodies and officials.
This section consists of resources to introduce the concept of data protection.
These resources touch on the legal environment and systems that can influence what policies are possible and how they might look in practice.
Resources and best practices to keep your personal data safe.
These guides, examples, and strategies offer assistance in pursuing changes through the courts
To find resources in the Toolkit, select as many of the filters in the search bar below as you would like. Each selection will present additional resources from the library.
If you would like to see additional resources, guides, reports, etc., or to send us resources that we may be missing, please reach out to the ADAPT team directly using the contact information at the bottom of the page.
Safernet Brasil, 2017
A guide to learn more about the traces we leave from our use of the Internet, especially in relation to personal data.
Acoso Online, 2021
This is a useful resources to learn more about nonconsensual pornography and how to fight back using legal and technical tools in Brazil.
Data Privacy Brazil, 2021
This guide intends to address a series of aspects related to the adequacy of Public Defenders to the General Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD). The document covers considerations of diverse natures and depths related to the process of implementing LGPD at the national level.
InternetLab, 2016
This report analyzes the regulatory framework regarding State surveillance of communications that was in force in Brazil up until March, 2016. Its purpose is to introduce relevant Brazilian laws and practices and how the protection of fundamental rights could be achieved. The report identifies strong points and main issues, and makes recommendations based on the International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance.
InternetLab, 2020
“Quem defende seus dados?”, the Brazilian version of "Who has your back?", aims to promote transparency and best practices in terms of privacy and data protection by companies providing Internet connections in Brazil. Every year, they review the methodology to include legislative changes, innovations and controversies in jurisprudence and updated best practices in terms of protection of privacy and personal data in this country.
Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados, 2021
This guide seeks to establish non-binding guidelines for treatment and explain who can perform the function of the controller, operator; legal definitions; their liability regimes; concrete cases explanations of the ANPD and the frequently asked questions on the subject of LGPD.
Data Privacy Brazil, 2021
A technical contribution on the control standard of the ANPD that includes several changes that seek to improve the capacity of the Authority to sanction infractions. For example; in the case of security breaches.