Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD): the relationship between information policy and information regime

Abstract

Introduction: This article brings reflections on the General Data Protection Law (Law nº13,709/2018) based on the theoretical framework in Information Science. The objective of this article is to present Law No. 13,709/2018, a legal-normative resource for a national information policy, from an information regime perspective. Objective: It is to present the General Data Protection Law (Law nº13,709/2018), a legal-normative resource for a national information policy, from an information regime perspective. Documentary analysis was applied, in which the aim was to verify constituent elements of information regimes proposed by González de Gómez in the LGPD context, searching in laws, decrees, and Brazilian Federal Government’s ordinances, technical recommendations and selected reports. Results: It is inferred that laws like LGPD must be observed by the actors involved, the social practices that are conditional, the informational environment in which it will be applied and its production situation (who, for whom and why), that is, its information regime. Conclusions: It considers that information policy studies need to be carried out, in Information Science, through information regime perspective for better understanding its context of creation, applicability, and adequacy.