Health Data Privacy under the GDPR Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses

• Main Author: Tzanou, Maria
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2021; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in the Law of Emerging Technologies
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Children; Consent; Data Protection; Data Storage; Emerging Technologies; European (EC) Law; European Law; European Parliament.-General Data Protection Regulation; GDPR; Health Networking Platforms; Legal Framework; Legal, Ethical & Social Aspects of IT; Medical records; Privacy, Right of; Smart Algorithms; Social Media; technological developments; Women's Health; Big Data Analytics; Data Protection Law; Health Data; Sensitive Personal Data; Data Protection Regimes; Big Data Challenges; Data Protection Impact Assessments; UK Act; Non-personal Data; AI System; Historical Research Purposes; Big Data Context; Data Subjects; Big Data; Big Data Issues; Big Health Data; Data Protection; Data Controller; Health Data Processing; Data Protection Officer; Personal Data; Medical Identity Theft; GDPR; mHealth App; Scientific Research Purposes
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429022241
• ISBN: 9780367077143; 0367632608; 9780367632601; 0367077140

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, such as ehealth and mhealth apps, smart watches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, combined with recent technological developments such as increased capacity of data storage, artificial intelligence and smart algorithms, has spawned a big data revolution that has reshaped how we understand and approach health data. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has foregrounded a variety of data privacy issues. The collection, storage, sharing and analysis of health- related data raises major legal and ethical questions relating to privacy, data protection, profiling, discrimination, surveillance, personal autonomy and dignity. This book examines health privacy questions in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the general data privacy legal framework of the European Union (EU). The GDPR is a complex and evolving body of law that aims to deal with several technological and societal health data privacy problems, while safeguarding public health interests and addressing its internal gaps and uncertainties. The book answers a diverse range of questions including: What role can the GDPR play in regulating health surveillance and big (health) data analytics? Can it catch up with Internet-age developments? Are the solutions to the challenges posed by big health data to be found in the law? Does the GDPR provide adequate tools and mechanisms to ensure public health objectives and the effective protection of privacy? How does the GDPR deal with data that concern children’s health and academic research? By analysing a number of diverse questions concerning big health data under the GDPR from various perspectives, this book will appeal to those interested in privacy, data protection, big data, health sciences, information technology, the GDPR, EU and human rights law.