Sarabdeen Jawahitha, Chikhaoui Emna, Mohamed Ishak Mohamed Mazahir
College of Law, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Compliance Office, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2022 May 21;8(5):e09458. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09458. eCollection 2022 May.
Health emergencies require unprecedented measures to protect the public from the health disaster. Such measures may require limiting the exercise of personal freedom and other rights like the right to data privacy. The limitation, however, should be temporary and proportionate so that privacy rights are not compromised superfluously. In this aspect, the European Union (EU) implemented better data protection measures and guided the government and various entities on the acceptable ways of handling data during a pandemic, though the measures taken were not very comprehensive. Canadian privacy laws in general are sector driven and not harmonised at the national level and there is no new guidance on the usage of data during emergencies. Hence, this research will analyse laws and regulation in EU and Canada with a view to understanding the necessity of amending privacy laws in Canada to make it relevant, up-to-date and in compliance with EU data protection requirements so data sharing from EU countries could be made easy. It further encapsulates appropriate standards for Canada health data protection for better management of health data privacy.
卫生紧急情况需要采取前所未有的措施来保护公众免受健康灾难的影响。此类措施可能需要限制个人自由的行使以及其他权利，如数据隐私权。然而，这种限制应该是暂时的且适度的，以便隐私权不会被过度损害。在这方面，欧盟实施了更好的数据保护措施，并就疫情期间处理数据的可接受方式向政府和各实体提供指导，尽管所采取的措施并不十分全面。加拿大的隐私法总体上是由部门驱动的，在国家层面上并未统一，并且在紧急情况下对数据使用没有新的指导意见。因此，本研究将分析欧盟和加拿大的法律法规，以期了解修订加拿大隐私法使其具有相关性、与时俱进并符合欧盟数据保护要求的必要性，从而便于从欧盟国家进行数据共享。它还概括了加拿大健康数据保护的适当标准，以便更好地管理健康数据隐私。
