PARIS
The French National Commission for Informatics and Liberties (CNIL), an independent regulatory body for data privacy, has approved the government’s planned registration database.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Information System captures personal data of those who have been vaccinated.
The registration system will be in place from Jan. 4. In order to effectively implement, monitor and manage the vaccine campaigns against COVID-19, the government had on 25 December issued an order, allowing the creation of an information system processing personal data related to vaccines.
According to the details of the recommendation of the order, the system will include the personal identification data of the person who received the vaccine, contact information, dates of injections, the place where the injection was performed. provide vaccinations, details of vaccines introduced and details of health professionals carrying out pre – and post – vaccination consultations.
It also includes information about people’s health and the treatments they were taking before the vaccine and possible side effects associated with the vaccine.
This data will be collected by health professionals administering the vaccine and kept in the information system for 10 years.
The government has said that the system will allow a “statistical survey of the vaccine campaign” to identify people who are eligible for vaccination, issue vaccine vouchers to these people and monitor the supply of vaccines.
The data can be obtained by the doctors treating the vaccine, and public bodies such as the National Health Insurance Fund (CNAM) or the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) to accomplish their missions.
In an interview with FranceInfo, CNIL director Thomas Dautieu said CNIL had been consulted on this draft mandate to determine whether it complied with the Data Protection Act and the European Data Protection Directive. He said the governing body has made recommendations to ban people who do not want to be vaccinated.
“We can understand that when we have been vaccinated, we need to stay in this file, especially to control what is known as surveillance, if we are adversely affected, for example. But the CNIL has advised the government that if people do not want to be vaccinated, they can ask for their data to be removed from this file. “
The Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcast System (HAS), and in summary form. Contact us for membership options.