Following the implementation of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Europe exported its data protection standards to Brazil's data protection legislation. Besides its manifest aim of providing data privacy rights, the GDPR also fosters economic benefits by incentivising the innovation of privacy-enhancing technologies. Therefore, using a TWAIL-based de-colonising methodology, this research article assesses the effects for innovation in Brazil arising from reproducing the European data regulation. It argues that this replication provided the LGPD with the principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. However, the Western firms, to the detriment of Brazilian firms, appropriate the resulting economic benefit of innovation because the former excel at introducing and securing technology monopolies in the Brazilian market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies, which requires firms to purchase a portion of their operations' inputs in the domestic market.Issue 1
This paper aims to address the decision-making process of individual and collective behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil. To answer this research question, our analysis will make use of economic theoretical models, namely game theory and the tragedy of the commons, to simulate individual, firms, and collective behavior in the pandemic in Brazil. Analysis point that, according to the Prisoner's dilemma approach, citizens, as well as firms, are inclined to mutually defect from changing their behavior to comply with social distancing measures. Consequently, they will be worse off compared to a groupcentered decision. Also, the framework on the tragedy of the commons predicts that individuals, taking self-centered decisions, opt out of the sanitary measures. This will lead to the depletion of the collective benefit, i.e. public health. Therefore, public intervention is justified to coordinate individuals' behavior because citizens are better off when everyone complies with social distancing measures.
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