ORCID
Chiara Gallese - 0000-0001-8194-0261
Keywords
Health Data, Data Protection, Digital Strategy Corpus, Data Commodification, Anonymisation Techniques, EU Regulation, Privacy Rights
Abstract
This article explores the health data commodification phenomenon in the European Union’s digital market. The emergence of a health marketplace, and the increasing utilisation of health data by both public and private entities, have raised significant concerns about citizens’ rights. This study examines the risks of health data commodification, the EU’s efforts to facilitate data sharing and reuse through the Digital Strategy Corpus of law (DSC) as well as its potential implications on the rights of data subjects. The article investigates the ongoing scholarly debate surrounding the commodification of personal data, and its ethical and legal dimensions. The interdisciplinary approach intertwines legal analysis with computer science insights to explore re-identification risks. The article highlights the need for a balanced approach that upholds citizens’ privacy rights while enabling responsible data sharing.
Acknowledgements
Funding
Project 101108151 – DataCom – HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only, and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The cost of editing selected articles published in the Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies in the 2022–2024 is covered by funding under the program “Development of scientific journals” of the Ministry of Education and Science under agreement No. RCN/SN/0324/2021/1. Task title: “Verification and correction of scientific articles and their abstracts”. Funding value: 36 298,00 PLN; The task consists of professional editing of articles published in English.
Declaration of Conflict of interests
The author declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authors hip, and publication of this article.
Declaration about the scope of AI utilisation
The author used standard AI tools to improve spellchecking, grammar and readability.
Recommended Citation
Gallese, C. (2024). The Risks of Health Data Commodification in the EU Digital Market. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 17(29), 89-126. https://doi.org/10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2024.17.29.3
First Page
89
Last Page
126
Page Count
38
DOI
10.7172/1689-9024.YARS.2024.17.29.3
JEL Code
K24
Publisher
University of Warsaw
