MATURIDADE DA PROTEÇÃO DE DADOS NAS INSTITUIÇÕES FEDERAIS DE ENSINO SUPERIOR DO NORDESTE

Abstract

The present work aims to assess the degree of maturity of the application of the General Data Protection Law in the processing of data by Federal Higher Education Institutions in the Northeast, in addition to seeking to identify the mechanisms, policies and tools adopted by institutions in response to incidents in the treatment of personal data, to characterize the application of data protection legislation to federal institutions of higher education and to propose suggestions for the adaptation to the legislation in the treatment of personal data by the institutions. The theoretical foundation was structured in two parts: i) The protection of personal data, and ii) The protection of personal data in the Public Administration. Based on the consulted literature, this research can be classified as descriptive and conducted in the form of a case study. Five federal institutions of higher education were researched, namely: Federal University of Paraíba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Federal Institute of Pernambuco and the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte. Questionnaires were sent through the Access to Information Law to the institutions surveyed. The results made it possible to understand the maturity of the data protection law of processes of adaptation to the legislation.