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Right to Privacy| PORTUGAL
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| 1. The only particular duty of medical secrecy is the one inscribed in the Medical Deontology Code, which is not a legal text. 2. The Law n° 12/2005 of 26 January 2005 concerning personal genetic information and health information obliges the persons responsible for the processing of health information to take all adequate measures to protect confidentiality, to ensure the security of the premises and the equipments and the control of the access to the information, as well as to guarantee the enforcement of the duty of confidentiality and of the rules of ethics and professional conduct by all health care professionals. 3. Within the Portuguese legal framework, personal data protection has legal and also constitutional protection. The right of access to information relating to health data, including genetic data, is exercised by means of the doctor chosen by the data subject. Only an indirect access is possible. |