Items for "PETs"

Privacy Enhancing Techniques

OBJECTIVES: To introduce some of the privacy protection problems related to genomics based medicine and to highlight the relevance of Trusted Third Parties (TTPs) and of Privacy Enhancing Techniques (PETs) in the restricted context of clinical research and statistics. METHODS: Practical approaches based on two different pseudonymisation models, both for batch and interactive data collection and exchange, are described and analysed. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The growing need of managing both clinical and genetic data raises important legal and ethical challenges...

Keywords: Genomic medicine, privacy, Confidentiality, stigmatization, discrimination, TTPs, PETs, pseudonymisation