Applicability of Article 9 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the Protection of personal sensitive data during COVID-19 pandemic
Applicability of Article 9 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the Protection of personal sensitive data during COVID-19 pandemic

Summary/Abstract: European Regulation 679/2016 imposes both rules and strict deadlines on both controllers and processors of personal data. The data subjects acquire new rights in the light of the normative act (eg the right to be forgotten, within legal limits, of course) and have a much greater control over data processing, especially when it is classified as "sensitive" (data related to health, for example). The balance of the relationship between the data subject and the controller should be fair and transparent, considering the huge flow of information that circulates in each field of our daily activities. But what happens when this balance is disturbed by emergencies that directly affect our health, either on a regional scale – epidemics, or globally – pandemics? To what extent does the Regulation achieve its purpose of protecting the rights of data subjects?

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