There is a common understanding of laws for personal data protection that, with some exceptions, it is the individual who has the right of disposition of sensitive personal information.
Personal information was anonymised according to the Spanish Organic Law of Personal data Protection 15/1999.
The comparison focuses on five major themes: awareness and trust, government policies for personal data protection, the applicable laws and regulations, implementation of those laws and regulations, and supervision and enforcement.
It now wants to force firms to cough up the files.Existing laws require companies to reply to requests for personal data, but only on paper.
The study was done in agreement with the Declaration of Helsinki for human studies (as revised in Edinburgh, 2000), and all records were treated according to the Spanish law for protecting personal data (LOPD: Organic Law 15/1999, de 13 Dic).
This procedure is in line with German law, because personal data were collected and forwarded as anonymized data.
It's in recognition of this that the law says that personal data is distinct from other data types.
Laws on personal data, and public expectations of privacy, are strict in European countries; just as with back-up services for computers, users need to be sure that their data will be properly safeguarded if they are sent abroad.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Dutch Law for the Protection of Personal Data (Wet Bescherming Persoonsgegevens), and the Declaration of Helsinki [ http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/].
But (a) it is unclear if using participant data for surveys is permissible because under German law personal data may not be processed without consent.
According to the national data protection laws, all personal data are treated as confidential and used only for scientific purposes.
