Você Está Lendo Minha Mente?: A Creative Storytelling Series on Data Rights [Português]
Você Está Lendo Minha Mente? (Are You Reading My Thoughts?): A Creative Storytelling Series on Data Rights [English]
A Critique of Smart Cities: What they are and who they (theoretically) serve
It is not new that there is a tendency among public authority managers to promote the concept of smart cities to justify any actions to implement technology without discussing in depth its purposes. Cameras, facial recognition, sensors, smart meters, wi-fi, etc. are brought to the municipal public space while disclosing little to no information to […]
Exceptions to Data Protection Regulations: Lessons from the Data Privacy Learning Series
When discussing data protection regulations, particularly the passage of comprehensive data protection laws, the issue of what falls within scope and what exemptions exist to circumvent them often arises. This comes into focus in reviewing the cases in which personal data processing for the purposes of public security, national defense or criminal persecution are weakened […]
Advocacy and Communications Strategies: Lessons from the Data Privacy Learning Series
This workshop took place in the context of the Data Privacy Learning Series, a series of five events with members of the ADAPT project, whose goal is to tackle concrete issues around advocacy and activism on data protection in the Global South. The series is being conducted by Data Privacy Brasil Research Association with the […]
Facial Recognition in Brazil: a gender and race-based perspective
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 […]