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Imaginários tecno-autoritários na América Latina: A contestação das tecnologias...
Machado, H.No contexto da expansão global de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial, organizações da sociedade civil têm empreendido ações de contestação do seu uso, invocando riscos de vigilância massiva, ameaças à privacidade e liberdades civis, e desigualdades e discriminação. Este artigo expande o conhecimento sobre a contestação de tecnologias de reconhecimento facial para além dos casos dos EUA e da Europa, analisando...
Dancing in the dark: Policy transformations through obfuscating contestations i...
Amelung, N.; Machado, H.In December 2021, the European Commission proposed amendments to the Prüm system on the exchange of different categories of personal data for stepping up cooperation for combating terrorism and cross-border crime (Prüm II). The proposal aimed to increase automation of the sharing of data, add new categories of data for exchange, namely facial images and police records, and prepares the integration of the Prüm s...
Faces of the tropics: Facial recognition, identity and refusal in Mexico
Machado, H.; Noronha, S. de.This paper investigates ‘AI refusal’ by analysing how colonial and racialised logics inform the surveillance and representation of Mexicans through facial recognition technologies. Blending conventional academic analysis with a fictional vignette and a visual triptych, the paper offers a creative-critical approach to resistance. The vignette evokes the emotional and embodied impacts of surveillance, while the t...
Performing publics of science in the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in ...
Machado, H.; de Freitas, C.; Fiske, A.; Radhuber, I.; Silva, S.; Grimaldo-Rodríguez, C. O.; Botrugno, C.; Kinner, R.; Marelli, L.Research about science and publics in the COVID-19 pandemic often focuses on public trust and on identifying and correcting public attitudes. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 209 residents in six countries—Austria, Bolivia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Portugal—this article uses the concept of performativity to explore how participants understand, and relate to science, in the COVID-19 context. By performa...
Public and patient involvement in health data governance (DATAGov): protocol of...
Freitas, C.; Amorim, M.; Machado, H.; Teles, E. L.; Baptista, M. J.; Renedo, A.; Provoost, V.; Silva, S.Introduction International policy imperatives for the public and patient involvement in the governance of health data coexist with conflicting cross-border policies on data sharing. This can challenge the planning and implementation of participatory data governance in healthcare services locally. Engaging with local stakeholders and understanding how their needs, values and preferences for governing health data...
Aspiring to modernize: Current trends in state surveillance in Portugal
Machado, H.; Frois, C.In various countries throughout the world, the bureaucratic development of the modern states has been accompanied by the creation of identification systems whose purpose is to collect, store and manage personal and biometric data about its citizens. In this chapter we analyse the establishment of a national DNA database for criminal and civil forensic identification and the intention of implementing CCTV (close...
Public preferences for involvement in the governance of health data
Freitas, C.; Amorim, M.; Teles, E. L.; Maia, T.; Machado, H.; Silva, S.Public involvement in the governance of epidemiological and public health studies can foster needs-driven research, enhance participants’ recruitment, reduce attrition and improve the quality of and ethics in research and surveillance. However, it can also reinforce health inequalities if it fails to ensure public representation across socioeconomic gradients. This study aimed to assess patients’ and carers’ pr...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis of body composition for the anesthetic inducti...
M Araujo, Ana; Machado, H.; Falcão, A.; Soares-da-Silva, P.Background: Older people are currently the fastest growing segment of the worldwide population. The present study aimed to estimate propofol dose in older patients based on size descriptors measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Methods: A cross sectional study in adult and older patients with body mass index equal to or lower than 35 kg/m2 was carried out. BIA and Clinical Frail Scale scoring were...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis of body composition for the anesthetic inducti...
Araujo, A.; Machado, H.; Falcão, A.; Soares-da-Silva, P.BACKGROUND: Older people are currently the fastest growing segment of the worldwide population. The present study aimed to estimate propofol dose in older patients based on size descriptors measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). METHODS: A cross sectional study in adult and older patients with body mass index equal to or lower than 35 kg/m2 was carried out. BIA and Clinical Frail Scale scoring were...
Payment to gamete donors: equality, gender equity, or solidarity?
Samorinha, C.; De Freitas, C.; Baía, I.; Machado, H.; Vale-Fernandes, Emídio; Silva, S.Purpose: Regulation of payment to gamete donors varies substantially across countries. The development of an ethically sustainable governance system of payments in gamete donation demands that the preferences of different stakeholders be heard. This study intends to contribute to improving the understanding of payment to gamete donors by analysing the views of donors and recipients about the preferred form of p...