Data Privacy Brasil Research

In this line of action, we monitor, analyze, and influence regulatory processes and institutional arrangements for the protection of personal data. In addition to understanding how authorities work and interact at a national and international level, we also encourage and participate in debate activities with governmental, non-governmental, and private sector organizations.

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.

As digital platforms and markets gain increased centrality in civic life, so do their impacts on democratic rights and processes. In this context, there is a growing intersection with data protection and its relationship with other spheres, such as electoral, competition, and (hyper)vulnerable groups spheres, such as the rights of children and adolescents.