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
Safe Circuit
This project aims to disseminate knowledge about digital security and prevention of scams and misuse of data among communities and local leaders in 10 cities in Brazil through workshops, classes, and discussion groups.
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Digital public infrastructure and digital public goods in environmental policies
The project aims to link the concept of DPI to that of Digital Public Goods (DPGs), and explore the integration and use of digital public goods (DPG) for building digital public infrastructure (DPI) that operates in the public interest, and more specifically as tools for addressing climate change.
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Asymmetries and Power
Digital Defense Initiative
Data Privacy Brasil and InternetLab will seek to help civil society find ways to identify and react to the use of spyware softwares in a safe way, warning of the risks using these tools. The project will work to reduce the lack of transparency and regulation in the acquisition of these tools, in addition to promoting the strengthening of civil society organizations specialized in combating these surveillance technologies.
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Secondary Uses of Body Camera Data in Public Security: Constructing Legal Parameters for Due Process
How is the management and storage of data captured by body cameras carried out? This and other questions are raised by Data Privacy Brasil in the project “Secondary Uses of Body Camera Data in Public Security: Constructing Legal Parameters for Due Process”.
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Nature and information: contesting political instrumentalization of the LGPD in environmental regulation
The project “Nature and information: contesting the political instrumentalization of the LGPD in environmental regulation” consists of promoting legal studies that analyze the misinterpretation and application of the LGPD in conflicting situations regarding freedom of information, privacy and data protection. From legal analysis and reconstruction of three paradigmatic cases, it seeks to produce knowledge that […]
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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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Transparency, democracy and data protection
The “Transparency, Democracy and Data Protection” project originated from a concrete demand of Data Privacy Brasil Research Association to become involved in legal and political disputes against the misuse of LGPD to limit access to information which was published in the first place to protect the public interest w. In 2022, we joined the Forum […]
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Borders, Technology and Human Rights: opening border control programs to citizen participation
The project “Borders, Technology and Human Rights: opening border control programs to citizen participation” embraces two exploratory researches conducted together with the Paraguay NGO TEDIC – Tecnologia y Comunidad between the months of July 2021 and March 2023. The studies were motivated by the lack of transparency related to the deployment of technologies used for […]
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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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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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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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Accountability and Digital Civil Identity
Starting in June 2021, the project aims to understand and map the digital civil identity systems that are being developed and implemented in the Brazilian context, to collaborate with the construction of a solid data protection culture, with a specific focus on governance and accountability measures, such as impact and risk assessments, based on the […]
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