With the advent of era rise individual rights, countries around world have accelerated pace legislation to protect citizens' right privacy. However, due historical and practical reasons, some people in China, especially patients receiving hospital examination treatment, not been given protection. Does patient privacy? The answer is yes, but it a special It precisely because subtle relationship ...

This paper introduces key issues to the balance between data collection policies and privacy protection initiatives in an internationally unstructured legal framework. The right to privacy has been addressed and construed differently among jurisdictions, which leads to uncertainties regarding the cross-boarding data collection operations that often occur in the cyberspace. This paper focuses on...

Due to progress and demographic change, society is facing a crucial challenge related to increased life expectancy and a higher number of people in situations of dependency. As a consequence, there exists a significant demand for support systems for personal autonomy. This article outlines the vision@home project, whose goal is to extend independent living at home for elderly and impaired peopl...

Large-scale socio-technical systems (STS) inextricably interconnect individual – e.g., the right to privacy –, social – e.g., the effectiveness of organisational processes –, and technology issues —e.g., the software engineering process. As a result, the design of the complex software infrastructure involves also non-technological aspects such as the legal ones—so that, e.g., law-abidingness ca...

The purpose of patient rights, as a basic component of human rights, is to support patients and to strengthen them in social terms. The right to privacy and confidentiality, initially dealt with as a part of personal rights, has become a right in its own way over time, and is now recognized and guaranteed by many constitutions, laws, and international conventions. A cross-sectional survey was c...

The individual's right to determine if, when and how data about them will be collected, stored, used and shared with others is called the right to privacy. The problem of data collection and sharing arises daily among health services. Among medical staff, there are numerous message flows, including the medical records of patients and other patient's personal data. These data are often completel...

Some of the most significant Supreme Court decisions have, in recent years, been based upon a constitutionally protected right of privacy; that is, an individual's right to be free from unwarranted intrusions into his personal affairs. This constitutionally protected right of privacy was first used to protect an individual's rights to use contraceptives, under the theory that the state enforcem...