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Report | Surveilling the surveillants: monitoring facial recognition deployment in Latin America and Caribbean

por Eduarda Costa e Felipe Silva On 11 November, 2020, during the Internet Governance Forum – IGF 2020’s Community-facilitated Networking Break, LAPIN promoted a multidisciplinary debate about the impacts of Facial Recognition Systems on privacy and data protection under the title “Surveilling the surveillants: monitoring facial recognition deployment in Latin America and Caribbean”.   The discussion

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Report on the “Data Protection Regulations and The Fight against Covid-19” Webinar

On June 12, LAPIN partnered with Diálogos Setoriais, a strategic partnership between Brazilian and European institutions, to host the webinar Data Protection Regulations and the Fight against COVID-19. The event was an insightful opportunity to understand what can be learned from the European experience involving contact tracing tools to fight COVID-19 and to assess the

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Report on the Global Considerations for Brazil’s National AI Strategy Development roundtable

Last Tuesday, May 26, the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) and Movimento Brasil Competitivo (MBC) hosted a virtual roundtable to take in consideration some key elements as Brazil moves forward to developing its own national Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy. The discussion was sectioned into four parts: 1) what is happening on the global level regarding

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Summary Report on the judgement of ADPF nº 403 and ADI nº 5.527: The WhatsApp Case

SUMMARY REPORT by Paulo Henrique Atta and Thiago Moraes On May 26th and 27th, 2020, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF, in pt) started the judgement of the following constitutional lawsuits: The Unconstitutionality Direct Action (Ação Declaratória de Inconstitucionalidade – ADI) nº 5.527 and the Request for Non-Compliance of Fundamental Principles (Arguição de Descumprimento de

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