Data Protection and Feminisms Fellow at Coding Rights in ADAPT Project (Advocating for Data Accountability, Protection and Transparency). Professor and researcher in Law & Technology, with expertise in Private Law Theory, aphrodiasporic thinking and decoloniality. Doctor of Laws (Ph.D). Former Research Fellow at Leiden University on the Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw – Coimbra Group Scholarship). Visiting Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2015-2016), Federal Fluminense University (2018-2020), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (2018- present) and New Law Institute (2020- present). Senior Lecturer in Brazilian General Data Protection Law at Infnet Institute (since 2019). Associate researcher at DroIT – Legalité Research Center (PUC-Rio Brazil) since 2018. Public policy expert on Digital Rights, Data Protection, Ethics & Artificial Intelligence, Private Law and Intellectual Property fields.
The year 2021 witnessed heated debates on facial recognition in Brazil, especially within the context of public security. The technology was implemented by twenty states in the five regions of the country, and has been the subject of many promises from the private and public sector ranging from crime prevention to the identification of missing […]