Opposition to a presidential decree that creates a unique database with information about all Brazilian citizens has crystalized as a bill has been introduced to reverse the decision.
The bill authored by congressman André Figueiredo outlined a series of concerns around the decision by president Jair Bolsonaro, which established the rules and guidelines for data sharing between authorities and public sector bodies and created a single personal data repository for Brazil’s over 200 million citizens with information ranging from voice to gait.
“The centralization of personal data the government wants to put into practice can make such information very vulnerable and accidentally, or unlawfully, cause the destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or even unauthorized access to such personal data,” the congressman stated.