Privacy Preserving in the Medical Sector

Abstract

A number of fundamental rights are inseparable from human personality. These are in particular the right to the name, the right to missive letters, the right to physical integrity, the moral right of the author and, in the field which interests us, the right to the image, the right to honor, or the “right to secrecy”. These rights even have constitutional value. The Constitutional Council considers that they proceed from “respect for individual freedom.” In particular, laws that violate the search of vehicles, tax searches, and the publication of certain elements of tax declarations, have been declared unconstitutional. In this chapter the authors will talk about the different techniques that can be used for the preservation of privacy. This chapter will illustrate an overview of the different fundamental techniques for the preservation of privacy in medical sector such as: differential privacy, secure multiparty computation protocol, data anonymization, deidentification, fingerprint privacy, and others.