Respect for autonomy also entails the related duties to protect privacy and confidentiality and to ensure informed, valid consent by adopting appropriate legal frameworks for data protection.

Respect for autonomy also entails the related duties to protect privacy and confidentiality and to ensure informed, valid consent by adopting appropriate legal frameworks for data protection.

data protection laws are one means of safeguarding individual rights and place obligations on data controllers and data processors.

Such laws are necessary to protect privacy and the confidentiality of patient data and to establish patients’ control over their data.

Construed broadly, data protection laws should also make it easy for people to access their own health data and to move or share those data as they like.

data protection laws already create specific obligations of explainability for automated decision making.