Europe’s health data reuse plan needs some surgery, say privacy supervisors

Europe’s health data reuse plan needs some surgery, say privacy supervisors

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https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/european-health-data-space-edpb-edps-opinion/

A proposal put forward by European Union lawmakers in May, to establish a legal framework to make it easier to share electronic health records and other medical data — across borders and care institutions and with researchers and developers of innovative health products — should be revised to ensure citizens’ health data is stored locally, inside the European Economic Area (EEA), to avoid the risk of unlawful access, a joint opinion by two key EU data protection supervisory bodies has recommended.

That looks like wise council — given ongoing legal uncertainty clouding personal data exports to third countries, following major privacy rulings by the bloc’s top court since 2015.