Prior to the digital age, processing health data was not a major concern. The medical act was based on a strictly fiduciary relationship between the patient (as the data subject) and the doctor / physician. Medical data were communicated orally, and their “storage” was done on physical paper. With the information revolution, digital technology provided the ability to access quickly large amounts of aggregated data, ...

Digital technologies have undoubtedly changed the outline of the organization of the modern society and indicated an emergence of the new era of its governance. Such manifestations of digitalization as social media, platform economy, big data, AI, fintech, blockchain and internet of things have become an integral and sometimes even unnoticeable part of our life having brought up, on the one hand, new solutions to the long-running p...