Brazil’s Invisible Communities Deserve to Be Counted

Data discrimination leaves millions of people dangerously vulnerable.

A man displays his Brazilian ID card, held in one hand. October 13, 2025, 7:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

The rise in big data and artificial intelligence has weaponized, excluded, disadvantaged, and exacerbated the inequities faced by oppressed communities. In the United States, President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to exclude immigrants from census data—plus the gerrymandering that has increasingly distorted district representation—show that the way the population is counted matters. Yet if data were calculated and reported with integrity, then people could actually be seen, with all their needs and rights recognized.

In Brazil, one of the l

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