Beyond privacy: the right to health information, personal data protection, and governance

摘要

The right to information and the use of personal data in the production of information raises nume rous challenges in the face of "surveillance capitalism", with intense commodification and attempts at subordination of public interests to private ones, as highlighted in the article by Keinert & Cortizo 1. The aim of this commentary is to identify some problematic issues pertaining to personal data pro tection, based on discussions by researchers in the field of Public Health, in order to propose adequate regulation and governance in the use and treatment of personal data.