FaceApp: aplicação de lei estrangeira pelo juiz brasileiro e Lei de Proteção de Dados

Abstract

The contemporary world is essentially characterized by globalization. Society no longerunderstands its relationships to the border limitations of its national territory, whether forcommercial or personal activities, stimulated by technological advancement, especially theinternet that allowed new forms of communication and instantaneous access to massinformation. Such relations and interactions are permeated by transnational legal situations,which will inevitably give rise to conflicts, and consequently, the need for regulations to emergeto protect data and ensure the fulfillment of fundamental human rights. That is, it also highlightsthe relations between International Law and Domestic Law and the conflicts of laws in spaceand their application by a national judge in a concrete case. Therefore, this paper aims to analyzethe interconnection between data protection and conflicts of laws in space in the concrete caseof the Faceapp