The ubiquitous processing of personal data will not only provoke new possibilities for the misuse of such data, but also put into question the basic principles of data protection law...
Keywords: public policy issues, data protection, privacy enhancing technologies
02/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagThe due introduction of electronic health cards in the German public health care system is, at the time being, one of the biggest IT-projects world-wide...
Keywords: telematics, public health care system, electronic health card, telematics-infrastructure, data protection
02/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagSerious concerns have been raised about the legal basis and framework of biobanks. This led the TMF e.V...
Keywords: Biology and Genetics, right of personality, data protection, right of property, research secrecy
06/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagThe long term collection of biomaterial in biobanks for medical research is a challenge for informed consent, especially for consent forms, because they are the “legal basis” for the future use of the material...
Keywords: Ethics, privacy, informed consent, data protection, biomaterial
06/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagBiobanks raise numerous questions concerning data protection, especially, how samples and data can be anonymized and/or pseudonymized, how the donors should be informed and whether the donors can give generalized consent...
Keywords: biobanks, data protection, personal data, informed consent, pseudonymisation
06/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg WissenschaftsverlagThe TMF data protection scheme defines organisatorial and technical measures for building biobanks in a legally and ethically sound way...
Keywords: Ethics, privacy, biobanks, data protection, separation of information
06/2007 | it Information Technology (vormals it+ti), Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag