Government proposal on secure usage of social and health data

Government proposal on secure usage of social and health data

Government proposal on secure usage of social and health data

Summary of key points:

  • CSC supports the proposal for wider opening of national social and health data for research and development purposes. However, information security aspects must be at the center of further planning.
  • CSC endorses the key objective of the proposal: to streamline the processing of data access rights and to alleviate the administrative burden of parallel authorisation procedures.
  • The current proposal does not adequately take into account the organisational and technological protection measures required in the processing of personal data, and therefore the requirements of the GDPR are not fully met.
  • More focus should be put on the definition of clear and explicit consent process.
  • The wider use of data is essential in order to boost science and innovation, but at the same time, trust, legal certainty and strong information security must be central components in further development.