Asymmetries and Power
With an eye on datafication processes and their impacts on society, in this line of research, we seek to understand power and information asymmetries that are created or intensified by the advancement of technologies and the massive use of personal data by governments and companies. This work starts from an understanding of how technologies relate to social processes of marginalization, discrimination, and violence from the lens of social identities such as gender, class and race.
We intend to investigate how social control takes place from the sharing and centralization of databases and the use of surveillance technologies and why the protection of personal data should be explicitly placed on a social justice agenda.
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Asymmetries and Power
Elections, disinformation and violation of data
The 2022 elections in Brazil will undoubtedly see the abusive and illegal use of personal data in political campaigns. This phenomenon has been exposed in2018 by journalists who uncovered the operation of companies that formed large databases from data leaks and other illegal sources, then used them for automated messaging and media management, influencing the […]
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Asymmetries and Power
Border Surveillance: Making CIOF Visible to Citizens
“Border Surveillance: Making CIOF Visible to Citizens” is an exploratory project with a six-month duration carried out in partnership with the NGO Tedic (Paraguay). Motivated by the lack of transparency in the use of technologies used for public security forces, the project aims to expand and improve the public understanding of the Integrated Border Operations […]
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Asymmetries and Power
Defending Brazil from techno-authoritarianism
The project “Defending Brazil from Techno-Authoritarianism” was conceived in June 2020 and carried out between September 2020 and September 2021 intending to create a rapid response unit to the phenomenon of Techno-Authoritarianism that was spreading across Brazil. Formed by Data Privacy Brasil, the Center for Analysis of Liberty, and Authoritarianism (LAUT), and the Brazilian Bar […]
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Asymmetries and Power
New frontiers of digital law
The field of public security presents deep complexities for the guarantee of fundamental rights, in a scenario of violations of rights, structural racism, and inequalities. In this context, Brazil has been facing major debates that include facial recognition in public security, the need for a General Law for the Protection of Personal Data for public […]
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Asymmetries and Power
Expanding the role of Public Defender’s Offices in protecting personal data in Brazil
The project Offices of the Public Defender and Data Protection was born from the acknowledgement of the centrality of personal data protection as an aspect of justice and citizenship, as well as the realization of the relationship between the Public Defender’s Offices and citizens for the exercise of their rights. By providing service to millions […]
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