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MY TAKE: What if Big Data and AI could be intensively focused on health and wellbeing?

The Last Watchdog

and other jurisdictions have abjectly failed over the past 20 years leveraging Big Data to innovate personalized healthcare services. Healthcare providers haven’t yet figured out how to digitalize medical records in a way that robustly preserves patient privacy and keeps patient information out of data thieves’ hands.

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Personal data protection in the time of coronavirus (Covid-19)

Data Protection Report

Outbreak of the coronavirus and personal data privacy. There have been several data breach incidents which have given rise to concerns over privacy and potential discrimination against people from Wuhan and Hubei Province. Highlights of the CAC Circular.

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No Surprise: China Blamed for 'Big Data' Hack of Equifax

Data Breach Today

For a foreign power that continues to attempt to amass personal information on its adversaries, targeting a business that gets rich by buying and selling Americans' personal data remains an obvious play.

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A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data

The Guardian Data Protection

EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog.

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China Emphasizes Protection of Personal Data by Issuing a New Circular

Hunton Privacy

Consent Requirement for Collection of Personal Information. Any party is prohibited from publicly disclosing personal information of the data subjects, including name, age, ID, telephone number and home address, unless the personal information has been masked. Given that 99.1% Given that 99.1%

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Trying to tackle Big Data: European Union launches draft Data Act

Data Matters

Such exceptional need circumstances are defined quite broadly and include situations where the requested data is needed to either respond, prevent or assist with the recovery of a public emergency (such as a pandemic) or where the lack of data prevents a public sector body from fulfilling a specific public interest task. Enforcement.

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Google and other big data companies face increased scrutiny

Data Protection Report

Norton Rose Fulbright’s US Head of Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity Jeewon Serrato and Partner Vic Domen write about the increased scrutiny that big data companies like Google and Facebook are now facing. Get all the details at the full legal update, “ Big data companies face increased state and federal scrutiny.”.