Summary
CPDP LatAm 2025 will be hosted by the Center for Technology and Society of FGV Direito Rio, in Rio de Janeiro, in July 16th and 17th of 2025. CPDP LatAm is the leading data governance conference in the region and is the edition of the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference – an internationally prominent event that has been held for more than 15 years in Brussels, Belgium.
CPDP LatAm 2025 includes a track dedicated to debating privacy-enhancing technologies, three main tracks: the Latin American edition of the Computer, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP), MyData LatAm, and a collaborative debate event on the article proposals submitted and the Privacy Law Scholars Conference LatAm (PLSC LatAm).
The CPDP LatAm 2025 Call for Papers will be dedicated to the following general theme: “Data Governance, Development and Democracy in the Global Majority”. Contributions from all disciplines related to the conference theme are welcome and interdisciplinary work is highly encouraged.
Submissions are welcome in English, Portuguese and Spanish. This call for papers welcomes authors willing to produce full texts to be published in the official publications of CPDP LatAm. Their articles must be original and exclusively submitted to this process – therefore, without having been submitted in advance or in parallel to other publications.
Relevant topics
The CPDP LatAm 2025 Call for Papers prioritizes articles related to:
- Good and bad data security governance practices on the global majority
- Holistic frameworks for data governance on the global majority
- Community-driven data governance alternatives by local communities in the Global Majority
- (Comparative) studies on the compatibility of AI training with data protection
- Digital Public Infrastructure and data protection
- (Comparative) empirical research on the effectiveness of data protection regulatory frameworks
- (Comparative) empirical research on the costs and benefits of data protection authorities
- Data protection and AI safety
- Data protection challenges of AI frontier models
- AI and Personalisation data protection challenges
- Data governance of AI agents and context-aware AI
- Data Infrastructure and Data as Infrastructure
- Data localization and data transfer mechanisms
- Empirical analyses of data protection framework implementations and their social, economic and cultural impacts on the Global Majority
- Regional and international frameworks dedicated to data governance
- Interactions between artificial intelligence and data governance frameworks
- Enhanced privacy and data governance technologies
- Data Governance for Blockchain and Web3 Technologies
- Legaltech and Lawtech Approach to Data Protection
- Data Governance for Artificial Intelligence Data Governance for Extended Reality (XR)
- Algorithmic transparency and algorithmic discrimination
- Ethical and/or regulatory approaches to AI
- Dataset portability and interoperability
- Reviews on group privacy and other class rights
- Analyses of good or bad practices in Personal Data Governance
- Challenges and Opportunities for Automated Data Protection Compliance Management
- Digital Transformation and Data Protection
- Digital Public Infrastructure and Data Governance
- Accessibility issues and privacy techniques for people with disabilities
- Usable privacy and security case studies
- Case studies of discrimination arising from the (ab)use of personal data in Latin America
- Case studies of AI applications that may be particularly interesting to tackle Latin American issues with data-driven solutions.
- Case studies on privacy engineering
- Privacy threat modelling case studies
- Data Rights, Workers and Platform Regulation
- Data Protection and Environmental Regulation
- Good practices, syllabus and pedagogy in teaching about privacy, data governance, new technologies and technologies in the public interest
Interdisciplinary analyses are highly encouraged. If you have any questions about the compatibility of a potential submission with the theme of this call, please contact us (contact@cpdp.lat).
Review and publication process
Submitted articles will undergo prior anonymized selection carried out by the Scientific Committee and the Multisectoral Advisory Board of CPDP LatAm. Those approved in this stage must be submitted through the systems of the journals in which the special volumes of CPDP LatAm will be published, to go through the peer review process.
Submissions in English that successfully complete the peer review process will be published in a special issue of CPDP LatAm in the Computers Law & Security Review [to be confirmed] and edited by Professors Luca Belli, Nicolo Zingales and Walter Britto Gaspar.
Submissions in Portuguese and Spanish that successfully complete the peer review process will be published in a special issue of CPDP LatAm of the Brazilian Journal of Fundamental Rights and Justice (Qualis A1), edited by Professors Bianca Kremer, Ingo Sarlet and Ivar Hartmann.
Authors of the selected submissions will be invited to submit their working papers for closed comments during the Latin American meeting of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference. PLSC LatAm will take place in an online format in October 2025. More details coming soon.
Awards for the best interdisciplinary works
The articles selected to compose the special editions of CPDP LatAm will receive a prize of R$2,500 per article. Authors of proposals for articles selected for the peer review process – regardless of the number – will receive an exemption from the participation fee for CPDP LatAm 2025. Authors may choose to donate the prize to a charity.
The CPDP LatAm Scientific Committee will also award the “Danilo Doneda Award” for the best interdisciplinary work, consisting of a prize of R$2,500 for the first place and prizes of R$1,250 reais for the other finalists.
For further information, please contact: contact@cpdp.lat
Eligible authors
CPDP LatAm invites researchers to submit academic papers, especially in the areas of Law, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Computer Science, Economics and Public Policy, but also from other areas of knowledge relevant to the central theme of the event.
At least one of the authors of the article submitted to the Brazilian Journal of Fundamental Rights and Justice must have a PhD, PhD, JSD or equivalent.
Ineligible authors to receive cash prizes
The following categories of authors can participate in the call by submitting their paper proposals, which will be evaluated in the same way as those of the other authors but, due to compliance and anti-corruption rules, are not eligible to receive the cash prizes:
- Public Servants; and
- Collaborators of Fundação Getulio Vargas.
Important dates:
- Deadline for submission of the first draft (5000 – 7000 words): May 10th, 2025 at 23:59.
- Selection of initial drafts and communication to shortlisted authors: May 20th, 2025.
- Peer review results: August 20th, 2025.
- Possibility of the selected articles to participate in PLSC LatAm: October 2025.
- Submission of final drafts integrating all comments (10000 – 15000 words): November 30, 2025.
- Presentation of the final versions of the articles included in the special issues and official release: January 28, 2026.
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee and the Multisectoral Advisory Board and selections will be made based on both the quality and relevance of the papers. Selected articles will be submitted to a peer review process.
Instructions for Submitting Articles to CPDP LatAm
Initial papers should contain between 5000 and 7000 words. Texts in Portuguese and Spanish must follow the format guidelines set forth by DF&J, while texts in English must follow the guidelines set forth by the IDPL. We strongly recommend the use of reference managers, such as Zotero. The text of the work should not include the name of the author(s) and all references to the author(s) should be deleted (including the metadata of the pdf file, if they identify the authors). The identification, title, and affiliation of the authors must be indicated in the body of the email sent to papers@cpdp.lat. Submissions that do not meet these criteria will be rejected. Submissions and separate identification information of authors should be sent to papers@cpdp.lat.