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Jorge Alberto Álvarez Díaz1, Eduardo Alfredo Duro2, Ida Cristina Gubert3
1Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, México, bioetica_reproductiva@hotmail.com.
Abstract:
When in 1966 the United Nations stated in its International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the ideal of a free human being with respect to his privacy through the prohibition of arbitrary interference in his private life, it was not possible to imagine the impact of global unlimited connectivity, autonomy of new information technologies, the development of huge interconnected databases, the independent and unrestricted circulation of data, which have led to ethical and legal questions arising from this to treat personal and health data.
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