Article 5 of LGPD provides concepts for understanding the legislation, such as personal data, sensitive personal data anonymous; and data rendered pseudonymous (the latter available in Article 13, § 4).

Knowing the differences between these concepts is essential for the controller to understand whether LGPD is applicable in order to subsequently assess the respective legal basis.

To learn more on sensitive data, check out the articles “Sexual orientation as sensitive data” and “Gender identity as sensitive data”, by lawyers Bernardo Fico, Guilherme Sicuto and Henrique Meng Nóbrega, from our Data Protection area.

To go deeper into data rendered anonymous, read the article “The effectiveness of personal data rendered anonymous”, by Ricardo Maffeis (our senior litigation consultant) and Daniel Bittencourt Guariento.