From Data to Rights:

Algorithmic Governance, Automated Care and Informational Resistance in the Global South

Abstract

Algorithmic governance transforms vulnerability into an operational variable, redefining care as technical triage and citizenship as digital traceability. This article critically examines the impact of welfare automation in state platforms such as Meu INSS and Auxílio Brasi, exploring how personal data become criteria for eligibility and exclusion. Adopting a qualitative, theoretical, and documentary approach grounded in authors such as Foucault (2008), Haraway (2009) and Benjamin (2019), the study investigates the ontopolitical, epistemic, and legal effects of algorithmic rationality. It also maps insurgent practices that claim technorights and reframe vulnerability as political power, based on Indigenous, peripheral, and counter-informational initiatives. It concludes that digital resistance in the Global South signals a new grammar of care, based not on technical legibility but on listening and the common.