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The Institutional Grammar of Data Protection and Privacy in Brazil

Abstract

This article investigates the institutional grammar of data protection and privacy in Brazil. By adopting the analytical lens of the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT), it deconstructs the institutional statements within the regulatory decrees of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazilian states, classifying the different grammatical elements that inform state-level strategies for data protection and governance. It examines how the concepts of data protection, data governance, and privacy are formulated, as well as the institutional construction of data protection in Brazil. By taking an empirical approach, it aims to address the following questions: What is the institutional design of the strategies adopted by Brazilian states, within the federation, to protect personal data and citizens’ privacy? What are the implications of this design on how effective data protection is in Brazil? The article concludes that the data protection strategies formulated by the states lean more toward bureaucratic control of data processing than the actual realization of emerging citizenship rights.

data protection; data governance; LGPD; institutional grammar; institutional analysis

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