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20 March 2020
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The GDPR does apply to the personal data of any living individual, and those who are unfortunate enough to host the virus. The scope of the GDPR is broad. It typically applies to data that has been pseudonymized or coded (e., line data where the responsible physician or institute replaced the name of the patient with a code).
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the GDPR allows lawfully collected data (g., health care data) to be re-used for scientific research, without consent, provided appropriate safeguards are in place, such as key-coding (Art. 5(1)(b) & 89(1) GDPR);
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