The Brazilian Social Security Management Office's AI system reduces the waiting list but increases automatic refusals, harming beneficiaries and increasing inequality in the delivery of public services to the poorest and elderly people.
News and Research articles on Brazil
Brazil is currently examining a comprehensive AI bill to establish a rights-based and risk-based regulatory framework. In contrast to notions of legal transplant or the influence of the Brussels effect, Brazil seeks to carve its own path, addressing the nation's distinct challenges and opportunities.
The article explores the regulatory “grey zones” in the deployment of facial recognition (FRT) in policing in Brazil, and the policy and civic responses to them.
Reproducing the GDPR provided the LGPD with principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies.
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.
This paper analyses the spread of misinformation in the context of 2018 Brazilian elections. We give a general overview of the Brazilian political context, its media ecosystem and the weaponisation of the country’s most popular messaging app, WhatsApp, as a political persuasion tool. The current architecture of the platform does not allow, once appropriated for purposes of election campaigns, users to notice or become aware that they are being monitored and managed.