Conducting a Multivocal Systematic Literature Review About Compliance with the Brazilian Law for General Data Protection

A Multivocal Systematic Literature Review (MSLR) is a form of Systematic Literature Review (SLR) that includes gray literature in addition to formal literature. In this chapter, the objective was to instantiate the MSLR to research information security and the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (called LGPD) in the public health area, based on the steps proposed by Kitchenham and Charters (Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering, 2007) for an SLR and in the steps for inclusion of gray literature proposed by Garousi et al. (Guidelines for including grey literature and conducting multivocal literature reviews in software engineering. Inf. Softw. Technol. 106: 101–121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2018.09.006 , 2019). Thus, it was possible to identify formal works that have studied the level of compliance and the challenges to adapt to the LGPD in the Brazilian public health sector, as well as gray literature publications that help the reader to know the current scenario of public health from the perspective of the LGPD, from the beginning of its processing (May 2016) to the start of sanctions (August 2021). The MSLR adds value by listing the main publications on the subject studied and exposing the state of the art and practice, both in the academic and informal spheres. The MSLR proved to be a valuable tool in understanding a topic that permeates academic interest in an expressive way, since the method is suitable for recent topics that have not yet been formally explored in the academy.