for Brazil Tech
| October 11, 2019 — 22:07 GMT (23:07 BST)
| Topic: Big Data Analytics
The Brazilian government will create a single citizen database that will contain a wide range of personal information about the country’s population of over 200 million people, to be fully shared across departments.
According to the decree signed by Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, the objectives of the database include the improvement in public policy, as well as simplifying data sharing between government departments.
The information “will be shared as widely as possible,” according to the decree, taking into account any legal restrictions, requirements around information and communications security, as well as Brazil’s General Data Protection Act, which will be enforced in August 2020.
The database will be operated by different public sector agencies, which may offer and receive access to data. Data sharing will be categorized into three levels: broad, for public data that is not subject to any access restrictions; restricted, for data protected by confidentiality, though access will be granted to all government bodies for the purpose of execution of public policies; specific, applicable to confidential data, with access granted to certain agencies for legal purposes.
for Brazil Tech
| October 11, 2019 — 22:07 GMT (23:07 BST)
| Topic: Big Data Analytics