Scrutinizing the EU General Data Protection Regulation

Abstract

How will new decentralized governance impact research?

Secondary Use of Clinical Data for Scientific Research Purposes in the Ditas Project

“…The only thing that is sure is that fragmentation of data protection legislation inside EU, and particularly strict requirements for lawfully processing of data for health research (which creates further burdens for data controllers and processors) may hamper the responsible data sharing that DITAS project aims to provide, and consequently, the free movement of personal data within the internal market. 14 The hope is that emerging code of conducts at European level, encouraged by the GDPR in Articles 40 and 41, may enable harmonization in the application of data protection law in this specific field [Marelli and Testa, 2018]. Initiatives already exist to promote code of conducts on the large-scale re-use and linkage of health-related and genomic data.…”

“…Initiatives already exist to promote code of conducts on the large-scale re-use and linkage of health-related and genomic data. 15 On the other hand, code of conducts at National level may also constitute a valid point of reference for the scientific community to understand how to be compliant and a possibility for research organizations, patient advocacy groups, and industrial representative [Marelli and Testa, 2018] to agree on practical data protection rules that will meet the needs of the sector as well as the requirements of the GDPR.…”

P5 eHealth: An Agenda for the Health Technologies of the Future

“…24). Accordingly, it can be argued that the GDPR is bound to promote a "controller-based," "case-sensitive," and eminently "context-specific" approach to data protection (Marelli and Testa 2018).…”

An Analysis of the Consequences of the General Data Protection Regulation on Social Network Research

“…Therefore, researchers should themselves be aware of the implications of the GDPR and have reflected about it. Several papers have already been published to address this issue and to examine the impact of the GDPR on research in general [11,22,26] and on specific research fields [25]. However, none have addressed the implications of the GDPR for social network analysis, where data processing differs from other quantitative approaches.…”