Author(s): Lopes, Isabel Maria ; Oliveira, Pedro
Date: 2018
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/66980
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Regulamento (EU) 2016/679; Regulamento geral sobre proteção de dados; Dados pessoais; Clínicas de saúde; General data protection regulation; Health clinics; Personal data; Regulation (EU) 2016/679; Ciências Naturais::Ciências da Computação e da Informação
The GDPR aims to ensure the coherence of natural persons' protection within the European Union (EU), comprising very important innovative rules that will be applied across the EU and will directly affect every Member State. Furthermore, it aims to overcome the existing fragmented regulations and to modernise the principles of privacy in the EU. This regulation will come into force in May 2018, bringing along several challenges for citizens, companies and other private and public organisations. The protection of personal data is a fundamental right. The GDPR considers a 'special category of personal data', which includes data regarding health, since this is sensitive data and is therefore subject to special conditions regarding treatment and access by third parties. This premise provides the focus of this research work, where the applicability of the GDPR in health clinics in Portugal is analysed. The results are discussed in light of the data collected in the survey and possible future works are identified.
