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Right to Privacy| SLOVAKIA
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| 1. All health care providers are obligated to uphold confidentiality of all facts learned by them as a result of their occupation and the delivery of health care to the patient. This obligation to uphold confidentiality could be waived by the person whom these facts concern or by the competent issuing authority at the request of criminal authorities and the courts. 2. The Act on Health Care assures the right to professional secrecy as a patient right. 3. The Slovak Constitution stipulates that the right of every individual to integrity and privacy shall be guaranteed. Privacy and secrecy of the patient’s personal data and any data related to his health condition is one of the basic preconditions for the provision of health care. However, the Act on Health Care does not provide for the right to privacy or the right to the protection of private life as a patient. 4. The processing of personal data and the protection of the rights of data subjects are regulated by the Act No. 428/2002 Coll. on Protection of Personal Data. The data subject is entitled to request information -upon written application- about the state of processing of his personal data in a generally intelligible form. He also has the right to request -upon written application- a copy of his personal data in a generally intelligible form. The Act on Protection of Personal Data guarantees the right to request -upon a written application- the rectification of inaccurate, incomplete or not updated information. The data subject is also entitled to request the demolition of his personal data. |