GDPRRegulation (EU) 2016/679

Definition: genetic data: genetic data

GDPR Art. 4 (genetic data)

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personal data relating to the inherited or acquired genetic characteristics of a natural person which give unique information about the physiology or the health of that natural person and which result, in particular, from an analysis of a biological sample from the natural person in question

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