Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree to create a single database containing personal information on all 200 million of the country’s citizens. Somewhat embarrassingly, the news comes only a week after a leaked dataset of 92 million records was auctioned on the dark web.
The truism that knowledge is power has perhaps never been more relevant than in our current age of ‘Big Data.’ This idea has clearly not escaped Jair Bolsonaro’s notice, as this week he signed a presidential decree to instigate the creation of a massive, single database to hold sensitive personal information on every one of the country’s 200 million citizens.
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