Ana Brian Nougreres

Ana Brian Nougrères is an Uruguayan academic, lawyer and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. She was an adviser to the politicians in the two houses of the General Assembly of Uruguay.

Nougrères was a council adviser to Uruguayan politicians in the senate and in the Chamber of Deputies in Montevideo. She retired from that position in 2019 after more than two decades of employment.^[1]

In 2021 she was a professor of law, Privacy and ICT at the University of Montevideo.^[2] She was the chosen volunteer to be the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy. She replaced Joseph Cannataci, who had been the first appointee from 2015 and who had served for six years.^[3][4]

Nougrères attended a meeting of the European "Convention 108" in November 2021 (Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data).^[5]

In 2022, she addressed the United Nations General Assembly. She spoke about the increasing use of private data on-line. She accepted that new digital technologies process personal data in an invasive and large-scale manner. These processes often do not respect the legitimate expectations of the individual and their human right to privacy. She had published guidelines which she encouraged each nation to consider her recommendations which were broken down into ten areas: lawfulness, consent, transparency, purpose, loyalty, proportionality, minimisation, quality, responsibility and security. The advice was intended to assist each different country to find a balance between the conflicting interests of processing personal data and the right to privacy.^[4]

• Protección de datos personales en Uruguay, 2007
• ‘The Uruguayan law system facing security breaches, 2021^[2]
• Privacy and personal data protection in Ibero-America: a step towards globalization?, 2022^[5]