PRAVO NA ZAŠTITU GENETSKE PRIVATNOSTI

Abstract

The right of the patient’s privacy, first of all, the right to confidentiality of medical information is one of the basic human rights guaranteed in the field of health care. The protection of personal data is especially important in terms of genetic data as a particularly sensitive category of personal data, since it can reveal delicate information on the physiology and health of the individual, so that their detection represents a significant interference in the private sphere of the person to whom it relates. Having in mind the fact that presence and importance of these data is increasing in preventive medicine, the possibility of their abuse is increased, which makes the question of its legal protection is in the focus of contemporary law, and therefore it will be disccused in this paper.