In the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR as it is commonly known, protects patients’ personally identifiable information, including biometric data which are collected by some digital therapeutics. The GDPR can impose strict penalties for those that violate it including fines up to €20 million and can impose regulation on organisations inside or outside the EU if they violate data privacy for people inside the EU.
In the UK, patient data privacy falls under the Data Protection Act, which is a framework for data protection in the UK which supplements the UK GDPR. Data containing sensitive information, such as demographics, health, and biometrics, have legal protection under the Data Protection Act.
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