Date: 2009
Type: Article
Risk and Personal Information: the Finality Principle and Data Protection in the Brazilian Legal System
RBRS International, Brazil, 2009, 3, 3, 133-150
DONEDA, Danilo, VIOLA DE AZEVEDO CUNHA, Mario, Risk and Personal Information: the Finality Principle and Data Protection in the Brazilian Legal System, RBRS International, Brazil, 2009, 3, 3, 133-150
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/13484
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The use of personal data has become a fundamental tool for the development of various activities both in
public and private domains.
In industries that work with the risk as a key factor, such as insurance and financial ones, the analysis of
such risk is made possible precisely through the data collected about potential customers. Based on this
analysis, insurance companies and financial institutions classify their potential customers into predetermined
categories, setting premiums and interest rates according to each situation or, when it is the case, rejecting
the risk.
However, the collection of personal data cannot be indiscriminate, some parameters must be observed,
being the main important the finality principle.
This article seeks to define the scope of the “principle of finality” for risk analysis, either the risk related to
the possibility of occurrence of a loss in the case of the insurance activity, or concerning the possibility of
default over contractual obligations, in the case of financial activity, based not only on national standards
that deal with data protection and privacy, but also on the interpretation given by the Brazilian Supreme
Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal) and by the Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça) on
this subject.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. 2. Data protection in the Brazilian legal system. 3. Modalities of processing of personal
data. 4. The use of personal data for credit protection and risk analysis and the finality principle.
5. Conclusion. 6. Bibliographical references.
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