European Union - Cybercrime, Data Protection, Information & Internet

In the fast-moving arena of modern healthcare with its cutting-edge science it is already, and will become more, vital that stakeholders collaborate openly and effectively. Transparency, especially on drug pricing, is of paramount importance. There is also a need to ensure that regulations and legislation covering, for example the new, smaller clinical trials required to make personalised medicine work effectively, and the huge practical and ethical issues surrounding Big Data and data protection, are common, understood and enforced across the EU. With more integration, collaboration, dialogue and increased trust among each and every one in the field, stakeholders can help mould the right frameworks, in the right place, at the right time. Once achieved, this will allow us all to work more quickly and more effectively towards creating a healthier - and thus wealthier - European Union.

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The Court of Justice of the European Union, Data Retention and the Rights to Data Protection and Privacy – Where Are We Now?

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology - Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-18621-4_6 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 73-86

Author(s):

Felix Bieker

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Data Protection ◽

The European Union ◽

Data Retention ◽

Court Of Justice ◽

European Union Data

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Data Sharing Under the General Data Protection Regulation

Hypertension ◽

10.1161/hypertensionaha.120.16340 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 77 (4) ◽

pp. 1029-1035

Author(s):

Antonia Vlahou ◽

Dara Hallinan ◽

Rolf Apweiler ◽

Angel Argiles ◽

Joachim Beige ◽

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Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Data Protection ◽

Personal Data ◽

Research Approach ◽

The European Union ◽

General Data Protection Regulation ◽

Personal Data Protection ◽

Protection Legislation ◽

General Data ◽

Almost All

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became binding law in the European Union Member States in 2018, as a step toward harmonizing personal data protection legislation in the European Union. The Regulation governs almost all types of personal data processing, hence, also, those pertaining to biomedical research. The purpose of this article is to highlight the main practical issues related to data and biological sample sharing that biomedical researchers face regularly, and to specify how these are addressed in the context of GDPR, after consulting with ethics/legal experts. We identify areas in which clarifications of the GDPR are needed, particularly those related to consent requirements by study participants. Amendments should target the following: (1) restricting exceptions based on national laws and increasing harmonization, (2) confirming the concept of broad consent, and (3) defining a roadmap for secondary use of data. These changes will be achieved by acknowledged learned societies in the field taking the lead in preparing a document giving guidance for the optimal interpretation of the GDPR, which will be finalized following a period of commenting by a broad multistakeholder audience. In parallel, promoting engagement and education of the public in the relevant issues (such as different consent types or residual risk for re-identification), on both local/national and international levels, is considered critical for advancement. We hope that this article will open this broad discussion involving all major stakeholders, toward optimizing the GDPR and allowing a harmonized transnational research approach.

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The European Union and the Search for an International Data Protection Framework

Groningen Journal of International Law ◽

10.21827/5a86a82b67dab ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 55 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christopher Kuner

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Data Protection ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Fundamental Rights ◽

The European Union ◽

International Data ◽

Data Protection Law ◽

Eu Fundamental Rights ◽

Global Data ◽

The Eu

The European Union (EU) has supported the growing calls for the creation of an international legal framework to safeguard data protection rights. At the same time, it has worked to spread its data protection law to other regions, and recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) have reaffirmed the autonomous nature of EU law and the primacy of EU fundamental rights law. The tension between initiatives to create a global data protection framework and the assertion of EU data protection law raises questions about how the EU can best promote data protection on a global level, and about the EU’s responsibilities to third countries that have adopted its system of data protection.

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Artificial intelligence, Digital Single Market and the proposal of a right to fair and reasonable inferences: a legal issue between ethics and techniques

Unio - EU Law Journal ◽

10.21814/unio.5.2.2294 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 75-91

Author(s):

Alexandre Veronese ◽

Alessandra Silveira ◽

Amanda Nunes Lopes Espiñeira Lemos

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

European Union ◽

Data Protection ◽

Personal Data ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Single Market ◽

Legal Issue ◽

The European Union ◽

European Union Law ◽

General Data Protection Regulation

The article discusses the ethical and technical consequences of Artificial intelligence (hereinafter, A.I) applications and their usage of the European Union data protection legal framework to enable citizens to defend themselves against them. This goal is under the larger European Union Digital Single Market policy, which has concerns about how this subject correlates with personal data protection. The article has four sections. The first one introduces the main issue by describing the importance of AI applications in the contemporary world scenario. The second one describes some fundamental concepts about AI. The third section has an analysis of the ongoing policies for AI in the European Union and the Council of Europe proposal about ethics applicable to AI in the judicial systems. The fourth section is the conclusion, which debates the current legal mechanisms for citizens protection against fully automated decisions, based on European Union Law and in particular the General Data Protection Regulation. The conclusion will be that European Union Law is still under construction when it comes to providing effective protection to its citizens against automated inferences that are unfair or unreasonable.

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