On Vaccination of Covid-19 and Protection of Personal Data: Can Vaccination Information Be Processed by Employers?

15 June 2021Murat Volkan DülgerCommentary

Introduction

With the Covid-19 epidemic that has taken the whole world under its influence, we are talking about the problems brought by vaccination when we say PCR test result information, drugs used, contact information, PCR test result information of family relatives. Before that, we discussed the nature of the information referred to on various platforms as personal data, and by whom and under what exceptions. In fact, there was no doubt that this information was a special category of personal data under health data; The problem was how this data could be processed. Now, the same problems have come to the fore with vaccination and it has been started to be discussed by whom and under what conditions the "information whether a person has been vaccinated" can be processed.

Can anyone really ask if a person has been vaccinated and be forced to give this information? How will the balance be established between the public benefit of the information that the person has been vaccinated and the right to protection of personal data, which is interfered with by being forced to give this information?