Data protections rules ‘harming EU leadership’ in health research, says report

> When other countries do not have GDPR equivalent procedures for data protection – which the EU calls adequacy procedures – there is currently no workable mechanism for sharing health data for public sector research.

If you can't guarantee the democratically agreed rights of European citizens then you shouldn't gain access to their information. That seems like the way it should be - especially for health information.

Following regulations is always bound to throw up bureaucratic failures but is GDPR really an enemy of progress here? Most Europeans see this as necessary protections for citizens who would otherwise be completely out of the control.

Privacy is a civil liberty that we should be learning not to disregard so easily.