Protection of Personal Information Act 2013 and data protection for health research in South Africa

被引:14
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作者
Staunton, Ciara [1 ,2 ]
Adams, Rachel [3 ,4 ]
Anderson, Dominique [5 ]
Croxton, Talishiea [6 ,7 ]
Kamuya, Dorcas [8 ]
Munene, Marianne [8 ]
Swanepoel, Carmen [9 ,10 ]
机构
[1] Middlesex Univ, Sch Law, London, England
[2] Eurac Res, Inst Biomed, Bolzano, Italy
[3] Human Sci Res Council, Pretoria, South Africa
[4] Univ London, Informat Law & Policy Ctr, Inst Adv Legal Studies, London, England
[5] Univ Western Cape, South African Natl Bioinformat Inst, SA MRC Bioinformat Unit, Cape Town, South Africa
[6] Univ Maryland, Inst Human Virol, Baltimore, MD 21201 USA
[7] Inst Human Virol, Abuja, Nigeria
[8] KEMRI Wellcome Trust Res Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
[9] Tygerberg Hosp, Dept Pathol, Natl Hlth Lab Serv, Cape Town, South Africa
[10] Stellenbosch Univ, Fac Med & Hlth Sci, Stellenbosch, South Africa
关键词
NO; 4; BIOBANKING; CHALLENGES;
D O I
10.1093/idpl/ipz024
中图分类号
D9 [法律]; DF [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
Key Points The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) [No.4 of 2013] is the first comprehensive data protection regulation to be passed in South Africa and it gives effect to the right to informational privacy derived from the constitutional right to privacy It is due to come into force in 2020, and seeks to regulate the processing of personal information in South Africa, regulate the flow of personal information across South Africas borders, and ensure that any limitations on the right to privacy are justified and aimed at protecting other important rights and interests. Although it was not drafted with health research in mind, POPIA will have an impact on the sharing of health data for research, in particular biorepositories. It is now timely to consider the impact of POPIA on biorepositories, and the necessary changes to their access and sharing arrangements prior to POPIA coming into force.
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页码:160 / 179
页数:20
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