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

The growth of data-collecting goods and services, along with recent technological developments, has led to a big data revolution in the health industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted data privacy issues, particularly in relation to the collection, storage, sharing, and analysis of health-related data. This book examines health privacy questions in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the European Union's general data privacy legal framework. It addresses a range of questions, including the role of the GDPR in regulating health surveillance and big data analytics, the adequacy of the law in addressing challenges posed by big health data, and its implications for public health objectives and privacy protection.

Format: Hardback
Length: 166 pages
Publication date: 24 November 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The proliferation of data-collecting products and services, including eHealth and mHealth apps, smartwatches, mobile fitness and dieting apps, electronic skin and ingestible tech, coupled with recent technological advancements such as enhanced data storage capacity, artificial intelligence, and smart algorithms, has sparked a significant data revolution that has transformed our understanding and approach to health data.

In recent times, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront a range of data privacy concerns. The collection, storage, sharing, and analysis of health-related data raise profound legal and ethical questions concerning privacy, data protection, profiling, discrimination, surveillance, personal autonomy, and dignity.

This book delves into health privacy issues in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the broader legal framework for data privacy in the European Union (EU). The GDPR is a complex and evolving legal framework that seeks to address a multitude of technological and societal challenges related to health data privacy, while simultaneously safeguarding public health interests and addressing its internal gaps and uncertainties.

The book addresses a diverse array of questions, including:

What role can the GDPR play in regulating health surveillance and big (health) data analytics? Can it keep pace with the advancements of the internet age? Are the solutions to the challenges posed by big health data to be found in the law? Does the GDPR provide sufficient tools and mechanisms to ensure public health objectives and the effective protection of privacy? How does the GDPR address data related to children's health and academic research?

By examining a range 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, and related fields.

Weight: 426g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367077143