Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta Answers Ruling on Collecting and Selling Patients' Health Data for AI

Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta received a question about the permissibility of collecting patients' personal health data and analyzing it using artificial intelligence, as well as selling it to insurance companies or pharmaceutical firms, and the Fatwa Committee responded to it. The available sources present the question and the headlines of the answer without the text of the ruling.

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• Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta received a question about the permissibility of collecting patients' personal health data and analyzing it using artificial intelligence.

  «سألت دار الإفتاء المصرية عن جواز جمع البيانات الصحية الشخصية للمرضى وتحليلها بالذكاء الاصطناعي»

  Masrawy
• The question also covered the ruling on selling this data to insurance companies or pharmaceutical firms.

  «وعن بيعها لشركات التأمين أو الأدوية، وأجابت عنه لجنة الفتوى»

  Masrawy
• Another report on the issue of selling patients' health data noted that Al-Ifta had answered it.

  «هل يجوز بيع البيانات الصحية للمرضى؟ الإفتاء تجيب»

  بوابة أخبار اليوم الإلكترونية

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