Author(s)

ZhaoXia Deng

Affiliation(s)

School of English for International Business, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou 510420, Guangdong, China.

Corresponding Author

ZhaoXia Deng

ABSTRACT

In practice, personal health data involves multiple subjects and diverse forms of interests, and problems such as insufficient data autonomy, privacy protection, and weak supervision have not been effectively solved, seriously hindering the development and utilization of personal health data. In view of this, this paper explores the beneficial practices of personal health data protection in the EU from legislative and practical perspectives, and proposes corresponding countermeasures to enhance China's legal protection system for personal health data, which mainly includes: (1) improving relevant legislation to fully guarantee the sharing of personal health data; (2) protecting patient privacy to safeguard the exercise of data subject rights; (3) strengthening the construction of technical standards to promote trustworthy circulation among data controllers: (4) clarifying profit rules to safeguard the legitimate interests of data processors and users.

KEYWORDS

Personal health data; Sharing; EU legislation; Data controller; Technical standard

CITE THIS PAPER

ZhaoXia Deng. Legal regulation of personal health data sharing in the EU and its implications for China. World Journal of Sociology and Law. 2024, 2(3): 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61784/wjsl3005.

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