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November 10, 2006


Open Book in Private Lives

Filed under: — Sandra Campbell @ 1:08 pm

Although we have laws to govern our medical privacy, little information can reveal a lot about patients. Genetic testing is the problem because while it helps us it also gives out more information that is supposed to be private and it seems that they don’t know how to handle the problem.

Genetic data is generally covered by confidentiality and personal data protection laws, combined in most countries with recourse to over-arching constitutional protection, or human rights legislation.

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