Postal adress code (CEP), an obstacle to Open Data in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Ana Maria de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Eliane Braga de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1353
• topic: Postal Adress Code; Brazilian Postal and Telegraph Company; Public Transparency; Law of Access to Information; Open Data.; Código de Direccionamiento Postal; Empresa Brasileña de Correos y Telégrafos; Transparencia Pública; Ley de acceso a la información; Datos Abiertos.; Código de Endereçamento Postal; Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos; Transparência Pública; Lei de Acesso à Informação; Dados Abertos.

This communication presents an analysis of the appropriation of the Postal Address Code (CEP) by the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company, transforming public information of free access into commercialized product. The CEP was developed to replace Postal Zones (ZP) or Zones de Correo (ZC), created by the then Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT) that was transformed into a public company in 1967 during the Military Dictatorship. Through requests for information registered in the Citizen Information Service, instituted by the Law on Access to Information in 2012, and decisions of the General Union Comptroller and the Federal Supreme Court, we evaluate the arguments and support the non-inclusion of CEP in Open Data of the federal government. The approach is qualitative and the techniques used for the collection of data were bibliographic research, analysis of public documents, publications and legislation related to the subject.