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A new milestone for data protection in Brazil

Laura Schertel Mendes, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Clara Iglesias Keller, Leibniz-Institute for Media Research/Hans-Bredow-Institut
PUBLISHED ON: 13 May 2020

As the Covid-19 pandemic expanded across the world, so did the debates on whether fighting this sanitary emergency would require the use of personal data, and on how that would impact pre-established data protection frameworks. In Brazil , these concerns first came to light with the announcement of agreements between government and telco companies

Volume 2, Issue 4

Flawed cloud architectures and the rise of decentral alternatives

Primavera De Filippi, Research and Studies Center of Administrative Science (CERSA/CNRS), Université Paris II (Panthéon-Assas)
PUBLISHED ON: 01 Nov 2013 DOI: 10.14763/2013.4.212

Currently dominant cloud services raise challenges in terms of security, privacy and user autonomy. Decentralisation, advocated by civil society, may overcome some of the drawbacks.

KEYWORDS: Cloud computing, IT system architecture, Informational self-determination