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The General Law for Data Protection (LGPD), effective since Sept. 18, was a huge step toward a bigger role for Brazil in the global digital economy. -
The Peruvian competition authority plans to help draw up an antitrust policy aimed at reducing barriers to entry, business bureaucracy and price-fixing, as well as to implement a pre-merger notification system. -
Walmart saw its plans to buy crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop MX potentially go down the drain with the Mexican competition authority's decision to block the deal because it would likely undermine companies operating in the same markets. -
The Brazil unit of Colombian on-demand delivery startup Rappi has been targeted in a Brazilian preliminary probe into its use of clients' data to analyze purchasing trends, according to a document seen by MLex. -
Pfizer, Celgene's Brazilian subsidiaries, others, queried about substitutes in AbbVie-Allergan dealBrazilian subsidiaries of Pfizer, Celgene, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson and UCB were asked by the national competition authority reviewing the AbbVie-Allergan deal whether there are close substitutes for medicines to treat Crohn’s disease, noninfectious uveitis and ulcerative colitis. -
Players in the pharmaceutical and medical industries are under scrutiny in Brazil for increasing their prices in a "non-reasonable and disproportionate way” in relation to product demand as Covid-19 spreads in the country, the competition authority's top investigator, Alexandre Cordeiro, told MLex. -
Google's Brazil unit was given 10 days by the national consumer protection authority to decide whether to settle an investigation into charges it scanned e-mails sent via Gmail without users' consent, according to a document seen by MLex. -
Unilateral conduct will continue to be a priority for the Brazilian competition authority's investigatory unit for the next two years, the agency's top investigator told MLex in a recent interview, citing a probe into Google's alleged uses of mobile-device operating system Android as one of the agency's most important cases involving digital markets.