Abstract The European Union (EU) faced high risks from personal data proliferation to
individuals' privacy. Legislation has emerged that seeks to articulate all interests at stake …

The Internet's World Wide Web (we b) is increasingly used as people's primary source of
information (Castells, 2010: 382). The technological developments that add to and increase …

This is a special issue on the implementation of the European Directive 95/46/EC on the
protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (short: Directive), with …

Increasing numbers of people are concerned about their privacy. This is a worldwide trend,
which may be due to increased numbers of people who are active on social media and …

The entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty brought some changes to the EU legal framework
and some of them have a direct impact on data protection. In this new scenario, the …

This chapter aims to study the treatment or processing–including collection, recording,
organisation, structuring, storage, and other uses–of personal data linked to health, under …

The discussion about the European regime for processing personal data is entering a new
phase. After the European Commission had proposed a new General Data Protection …

Before the digital age, health data processing was not such a problematic issue. It was
based on a strictly fiduciary relationship between the patient (rectius: data subject) and the …

Knowledge Strand of the EU Public Health Programme 2003–08. 1 The NCA became aware
of problems in the field of European public health monitoring related to data protection …

The European Union (EU) Data Protection Regulation will have profound implications for
public health, health services research and statistics in Europe. The EU Commission's …