Open consent, biobanking and data protection law: can open consent be ‘informed’ under the forthcoming data protection regulation?

Life Sciences, Society and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hallinan, Dara ^a   Friedewald, Michael ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biobanks; Consent; Data protection; Data protection regulation; Genetics; Genomics; Open consent

Indexed keywords

BIOBANK; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSENT FORMS; EUROPEAN UNION; GENETIC RESEARCH; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84975687679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21957819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40504-014-0020-9     Document Type: Article

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