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The COVID-19 pandemic represented a challenge for the personal data protection too, as new databases have been developed on vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and the testing of people, Health Minister Alexandru Rafila on Friday said.
"The protection of the private life and implicitly of the personal data is permanently subject to certain attacks (...) and the tools available to the authorities to diminish or annihilate such attempts are rather limited, and because of this, it is very good that we have today an institution that proved competent (...) and makes constant efforts so that these things that happen because of the diversification of the instruments that are available to some or others in order to enter the private life of the citizens are diversifying. We, in the health area, have many elements that are related to the protection of personal data, starting with those of the people who are insured in the health social insurance system," pointed out Alexandru Rafila, on Friday, at an online conference on the activity of the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing.
He stressed the importance of data protection based on which access to health services is made. Alexandru Rafila added that access to this data also has "a special economic value" for operators in the health system or for pharmaceutical companies.
