Digital health data is one of the subsets of big data, and is the one that gives rise to the most questions and even concerns. Health data includes above all the notion of “personal data”, to be understood very broadly. This is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person from a single piece of data or by combining a set of data (location, age, tastes and behavior). For example, the prescription of an anticancer treatment is a health data, just like the weight mentioned on an application when it reflects a health problem. Identification is possible directly by a name, or indirectly by an identifier or telephone number, biometric data or several elements specific to the physical identity,physiological, genetic, psychic, economic, cultural, social, but also by voice or image. Data linked to a number when
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