Handles health records, in Senegal

Décret n° 2008-721 du 30 juin 2008, arts. 33-41 (données génétiques, recherche médicale et traitements ultérieurs) · Read the law's page

• Inform people received in prevention, diagnosis and care establishments, by a document or another appropriate means, when their data are transmitted for medical research processing.
• Make data anonymous or coded before you communicate them to a third party for later historical, statistical or scientific processing.
• Do not make the results of historical, statistical or scientific processing public in a form that identifies a person, unless the person expressly consented or the data are limited to data the person manifestly made public.

Loi n° 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008, arts. 20, 40-44 (catégories sensibles de données) · Read the law's page

• Before collecting or processing data revealing racial, ethnic, or regional origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, trade union membership, sexual life, genetic data, or health, confirm one of the Act's narrow exceptions applies.
• Process data on criminal offences, convictions, or security measures only if you are a court, a public authority, a public-service body, or a legal auxiliary acting within your legal mission.
• Process health data only on one of the Act's listed grounds, such as the person's own consent or a public-health necessity, keep it under a health professional's supervision, and collect it from the person themselves unless collecting it elsewhere is necessary or they cannot supply it.
• Get the CDP's prior authorization before processing genetic data, health-related research data, data on criminal offences or convictions, or biometric data.