About a year ago, reports began circulating among data-protection professionals and others about inadvertent disclosures of personal data by public authorities that had intended only to disclose anonymous or aggregate data.
This study was approved by the ethics committees of the cantons Basel, Ticino, Valais and Zürich and the expert committee for data protection and professional secret in medical research of the federal office of health.
Study investigators respected the requirements of data protection and medical professional secrecy.
The development and execution of the project fully complies with all current international conventions and declarations, 60 EU legislation, 61 62 national legislation, 63 80 ethical regulations, data protection laws and the professional code of conduct of all the countries involved.
No longer is data security the exclusive and rather arcane preserve of spotty technology professionals or data protection lawyers.
Regulated data items that are protected by data protection regulations.
Consequently, solution approaches, which guarantee the fulfillment of data protection regulations on an organizational and professional level during the operation of the information systems and during the transfer of data between the information systems, are needed.
Data protection legislation is not about protecting data; its about protecting people.
She said that the document on which the paper was relying, which Ireland obtained under data protection laws, only took into account the professional view of a single officer, covered a limited period and was difficult to understand because it was heavily redacted.
GiveADay, a similar scheme launched last week, sees cyber-security professionals support charities with their data protection.
