The Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare is a modern technology that interacts between medical applications and devices and the patient through sensors that collect patient data and send it via the Internet to the healthcare provider or to their mobile phone, to take appropriate medical procedures that suit their health condition. This technology has many applications and various undeniable advantages, but it is not without drawbacks that may lead to civil liability. The privacy of the patient's personal and health data, the multiplicity of legal relationships resulting from the use of this technology, as well as the risks associated with the use of devices and applications, all require legislative intervention to provide legal protection for the patient, preserve the privacy of their data, and compensate them for damages caused by IoT devices and applications. The study relied on the analytical approach to analyze the legal texts that included privacy in data processing, in addition to using the comparative approach. The study included a comparison between Iraqi law and the directives issued by the European Union, which are represented by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) issued by the European Union in 2016, as well as the European Directive on Liability for Defective Products issued in 1985, as well as a comparison with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in the United States of America (HIPAA), in addition to making use of the laws included in the UAE legislation related to the research topic
Badaa Hassouni (Sun,) studied this question.