Revista de Direito Contemporâneo UNIDEP

ROBOTS AND SOCIAL SECURITY

Kássia de Moraes Vailatti — 2025-11-18

his study analyzes the impacts of replacing human labor with robots on Brazil’s social security revenue within the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The increasing integration of advanced technologies, which replaces both manual and intellectual activities, threatens the traditional contributory base sustained by formal employment relationships. This scenario raises concerns about the financial sustainability of the social security system and the maintenance of essential public policies. The study aims to explore the challenges faced by social security funding under this new reality, explain how job substitution occurs, and assess its effects on the reduction of contributions. The research adopts a deductive method and relies on bibliographic sources, including books, scientific articles, and institutional reports. Given the identified risk of deficits, the study concludes that it is necessary to rethink the current social security financing model to ensure the system’s stability in the face of technological advances, considering the possibility of new forms of taxation to offset revenue losses.

THE RIGHT TO DIGITAL FORGETFULNESS AND RESOCIALIZATION

Etiane Rodrigues — 2025-11-18

The digital age has established the existence of information records and brought new challenges to the protection of fundamental rights, particularly with regard to privacy and human dignity. The concept of the right to be forgotten digitally appears as a tool to protect informational self-determination and reduce the effects of hyperconnectivity, allowing for the exclusion or deindexing of certain personal information. In Brazil, the lack of specific legislation and conflicts between freedom of expression, the right to information, and personality protection hinder the implementation of this right. This article analyzes the right to digital oblivion from the perspective of its legal foundations, assessing its viability as an instrument of social reintegration for convicted individuals. To this end, it examines the regulatory challenges, the implications for criminal law and the enforcement of sentences, as well as the compatibility of this concept with criminal rehabilitation and the deletion of criminal records. Finally, normative alternatives and interpretations are proposed that seek to balance human dignity with the need to ensure legal certainty and access to information. The approach used integrates doctrinal, jurisprudential, and normative analysis, encouraging reflection on the urgency of regulating the right to digital oblivion in Brazil, especially in relation to the process of resocialization.

“UBERIZATION” AND PRECARIOUSNESS OF LABOR RELATIONS

Eduardo Henrique da Silva — 2025-11-18

This study aims to understand the phenomenon of Uberization and its impact on the precarization of labor relations. Initially, labor relations are contextualized since the First Industrial Revolution, highlighting how their transformations over time have reconfigured the market and the lives of workers, who gradually gained rights aiming for greater balance in the employee-employer relationship. In this context, the concept of "Industry 4.0" emerges, resulting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which drives Uberization — a form of work mediated by digital platforms. In a scenario of high unemployment, these platforms present themselves as an alternative for economic participation but lack adequate mechanisms for labor and social security protection, constituting a regulatory challenge. Regarding the methodology, the research adopted an analytical and deductive approach. As for the procedure, bibliographic and documentary research was conducted using solid databases (such as Google Scholar, Scielo, and CAPES Thesis and Dissertation Portal) in order to investigate and analyze academic works discussing the topic. It was found that, similar to experiences observed in European countries, Brazil is in the process of developing regulations to govern labor relations arising from the gig economy, aiming to mitigate precariousness and enhance workers' social security. However, even with some legislative advances, the path remains long for establishing effective legal protection and balanced conditions in work relations mediated by digital platforms.

THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY COMPENSATION DUE TO AFFECTIVE ABANDONMENT

Erika Tayer Lasmar — 2025-11-18

This study addresses the responsibility for compensating victims of emotional abandonment, a highly relevant topic given the changing family structures and the growing number of lawsuits on the subject. The objective is to understand how the Brazilian legal system has addressed liability arising from emotional abandonment, considering the need for legislative adjustments and legal responses to this issue and the protection of children and adolescents. The research adopted a qualitative, exploratory approach, based on the deductive method, and developed through bibliographic and documentary research techniques. Doctrinal works by renowned authors were analyzed, in addition to current legislation and prevailing case law, to inform the investigation into the possibility of civil liability arising from emotional abandonment in parental relationships. The responsibility to compensate in cases of emotional abandonment is supported by the understanding that affection, in the family context, is not limited to a subjective feeling, but translates into a legal duty of parents towards their children.

THE RESPONSIBILITY PRINCIPLE OF HANS JONAS AND THE BURNINGS IN RONDÔNIA

Marcelo Freire Pereira — 2025-11-18

This article aims to analyze how the thought of the philosopher Hans Jonas, defender of the theory of responsibility, can be used to collaborate with public policies and to make decisions about changes in human behavior in relation to fires. To do so, it is made an analysis of the phenomenon of fires in Rondônia, which faced in 2024, one of the worst crises due to lack of supervision in areas of environmental preservation, bringing negative consequences for the environment. Finally, based on the thought of Jonas (2006), it is concluded that ethical responsibility before the consequences of human actions is fundamental to ensure the continuity of life on the planet. This implies adopting conscious and guided attitudes in the preservation of human existence, considering not only the immediate effects but also the long-term impacts on future generations.

THE IMPACTS OF STRUCTURAL RACISM ON THE BRAZILIAN PRISON SYSTEM

Ana Carolina Biasuz — 2025-11-18

This article analyzes the impacts of structural racism on the Brazilian prison system, understood as a legacy of the slave system that shaped society and national institutions. The research problem arises from the observation that, even after the abolition of slavery, the Black population remained marginalized, being disproportionately affected by penal selectivity. The main objective is to understand how structural racism influences the functioning of the criminal justice system and contributes to the mass incarceration of Black people, relating it to the concept of the Criminal Law of the Enemy. The methodology adopted is qualitative, bibliographic, and documentary, based on authors such as Silvio Almeida, Dennis de Oliveira, and Ynaê Lopes dos Santos, as well as official data and case law. The historical and theoretical analysis shows that racial inequality, rooted since colonization, was incorporated into institutions and reproduced in the criminal justice system, which often identifies the Black population as an “enemy” to be fought. It is concluded that addressing this situation requires reforming institutional structures, implementing anti-racist public policies, and enforcing fundamental rights, aiming at building a more just and egalitarian society.