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Hungary: NAIH publishes a notice on taking pictures in healthcare institutions
On August 14, 2024, the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (NAIH) published a notice on the data protection aspects of taking pictures in healthcare institutions, following news of the Tisza Party's possible publication of photographs, videos, and reports outlining conditions in the Hungarian healthcare system.
NAIH outlined that:
- state and local government-run healthcare institutions perform a public task - therefore, recordings made in such institutions, which do not contain personal data, are data of public interest and considered public data in the public interest;
- creation, collection, storage, editing, or masking of such recordings before publication is considered data processing under the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);
- since the recording of images of persons staying as patients in a medical institution can also enable the processing of special data, individuals determining the purpose and means of data management, as well as the individuals and organizations who create, transmit, edit, and mask such recordings, have increased responsibility; and
- the status of a representative does not mean additional data management rights - representatives must also comply with the GDPR.
You can read the press release, only in Hungarian, here.
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