Sumário:Covid-19 in Brazil : politics vs. scientific evidence? -- Data-driven solutions for the common good : governmental approaches and bottom-up initiatives: contact tracing; contagion risk scoring; bottom-up tracking and sharing initiatives -- The framework for data protection in Brazil : ready to fight a pandemic?: the long and winding road to the LGPD; the right to data protection emerging from the only government attempt to capitalize on citizen data to fight the pandemic : disproportionate collection to measure unemployment -- The gene is out of the bottle : drawing the implications of positive obligations under the American Convention of Human Rights: the concept of positive obligations under the convention; is Brazil fulfilling its obligations under the convention?