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1 Introduction: Some Preliminary Reminders on the Evolution and Meaning of Data Protection in European Law Data protection is a legal discipline that studies the legal mechanisms that should be adopted and implemented with the view to protect individuals’ rights and liberties, and more
level of protection for the citizens with regard to the processing of personal data. The proposal has been adopted on 24 October 1995 and is widely known since as the privacy directive or the data protection directive . It fixes the general rules applicable to the processing of personal data in all
1 Introduction 1.1 Why Data Protection Is Important in Any Discussion on Healthcare Providing healthcare to individuals will almost always involve collecting and using information about them. This includes more formal medical aspects such as test results, doctors’ notes and medical
documents (i.e., diagnosis, prescriptions, reports, appointments, etc.) potentially jeopardises the privacy of patients such reports refer to, as already outlined by Article 29 Working Party. 5 The group has considered that: . . . from a data protection point of view the fact that has to be stressed is
law and the work of the hundreds of intergovernmental organizations subject to public international law 2 (referred to here as ‘international organizations’ or ‘IOs’). The EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘ GDPR ’), 3 which became applicable on 25 May 2018, illustrates the tensions
critical data which must remain private. In order to determine the boundary between parliamentary control and data protection in each case and to settle possible conflicts, clear rules and principles must be applied. Hence, an important question arises: Does the data protection legislation in force
[German Version] I. Data Protection – a Fundamental Right – II. Limitations of Data Protection – III. Data Protection and Information Technology – IV. The General Data Protection Law – V. Church and Data Protection – VI. Area-Specific Data Protection – VII. Future Prospects The misleading term data
pressure. These challenges affect two pillars on which liberty and democracy are based in the “onlife” dimension, in particular the right to privacy and data protection. 6 The latter complements the protection of the former against the threats coming from profiling and mathematizing human lives. Privacy