Personal data definition. According to the DPD “'personal data' shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity”. A data subject has a number of characteristics such as name and date of birth. A data subject is identified within a set of data subjects if he/she can be singled out among other data subjects. A personal data set can be split up in two parts: - A non-identifiable data part, containing characteristics that in itself do not allow unique identification of the data subject. This is commonly referred to as the “payload”. The payload contains anonymous data. In SPLENDID, such data includes for example, all the behavioural and health data of each subject (see Section 4.1.3). - An identifying part that contains information that allows unique identification of the data subject. Such information includes: name, address, phone/fax numbers, email address, full postcode, date of birth, social security number, photograph, names of relatives, etc. Due to its functionality, SPLENDID will deal with the subjects’ non-identifiable data part. However, no identifying data will be handled (collected, processed or stored) by the system. Identifiable information will only be kept on the local computers of the healthcare professionals and/or the investigators, who by law have the right to access such data.
Personal data definition. According to the DPD “'personal data' shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity”. A data subject has a number of characteristics such as name and date of birth. A data subject is identified within a set of data subjects if he/she can be singled out among other data subjects. A personal data set can be split up in two parts: - A non-identifiable data part, containing characteristics that in itself do not allow unique identification of the data subject. This is commonly referred to as the “payload”. The payload contains anonymous data. In SPLENDID, such data includes for example, all the behavioural and health data of each subject (see Section 4.1.3). - An identifying part that contains information that allows unique identification of the data subject. Such information includes: name, address, phone/fax numbers, email address, full postcode, date of birth, social security number, photograph, names of relatives, etc. Due to its functionality, the SPLENDID platform only utilises with the subjects’ non- identifiable data part. Thus, no identifying data will be handled (collected, processed or stored) by the system. Identifiable information will only be kept on the local computers of the healthcare professionals and/or the investigators, who by law have the right to access such data.
