Data Protection in Brazil: Applying Text Mining in Court Documents
The rise of information technology and artificial intelligence has sparked debates on data protection in various fields. Data protection has been addressed in court rulings long before Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD). This study analyzes jurisprudence related to data protection by examining 10,009 documents from the Brazilian States’ courts collected through a web scraping process in an online juridical platform without restricting the period of publication. This analysis reveals document distribution among state courts, with the southeast and southern regions being the most productive, and identifies key terms in each state court. This provides a deeper understanding of the legal processes surrounding data protection issues in each Brazilian region.
Authors
- António P. C. Duarte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3978-6509)
- Marcos Paulo de Oliveira Silva
- Madson Bruno da Silva Monte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3694-5375)
- Elnatan Bezerra de Souza (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5222-4378)
- Fernando Henrique Taques (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-6042)
- Victor Diogho Heuer de Carvalho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2369-7317)
- Nádia Correia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1823-5564)
Institutions
- Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (BR)
- Universidade Federal de Alagoas (BR)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-04-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2025087057
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Law
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 8.52