Entre a publicidade administrativa e a proteção de dados no combate à pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil: considerações sobre a divulgação de dados referentes à vacinação

Abstract

At the end of 2019, a new virus species was detected in the Chinese province of Wuhan. The SARS-CoV-2, well known as COVID-19, quickly spread worldwide and after a brief time it assumed the status of a pandemic, radically changing the daily life of the entire world. In this scenario, the Brazilian government issued Law No. 13,979, on February 2020, to establish measures to control the coronavirus pandemic in the country; within the govern aspects included by the referred legislation there is an exemption of the law dedicated to the policy of data processing whilst the state of health emergency persists. Furthermore, in the beginning of COVID-19 vaccination program came upon accusations of disregard for the pre-established preference order by institutions which culminated in the proposition of legal measures as these aimed at the data of those immunized against the new virus, under the auspices of duty to ensure publicity of the Public Administration, to be widely shared. In this regard, given the clarified context, the legal provisions of the States of Amazonas and Alagoas were analyzed such as the above legislation, under the auspices of data protection institutes, on the scope to enable an application that reconciles the public interest with an adequate personal data protection policy.