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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The new Act codifies the relevant legislation and broadens the possibilities to, under certain conditions, utilize and combine for secondary purposes personal data collected in relation to public or private social and health care operations.

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to analyst firm IDC , 93% of pharmaceutical companies and 72% of biotech companies already have business-critical applications in the cloud, including product lifecycle management, analytics, revenue management, and much more. The risks of non-compliance. Data security. But the threat is a lot more insidious.

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Mastering healthcare data governance with data lineage

IBM Big Data Hub

The healthcare industry faces arguably the highest stakes when it comes to data governance. For starters, healthcare organizations constantly encounter vast (and ever-increasing) amounts of highly regulated personal data. healthcare, managing the accuracy, quality and integrity of data is the focus of data governance.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. Such data security practices shall be appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at issue.”.

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New Cybersecurity Directives (NIS2 and CER) Enter into Force

Hunton Privacy

However, the concept of an “essential entity” is much broader and will also capture many organizations that have, to-date, not been subject to the NIS regime—for example, pharmaceutical companies and operators of hydrogen production, storage and transmission. Reporting of incidents. Enforcement. Key Takeaways from the CER Directive.

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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“ CAC “) released the draft Measures on the Administration of Data Security (“ Data Security Measures ” see our in-house English translation here ) for public consultation. The scope of application of the Data Security Measures.

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CIPL and AvePoint Release Global GDPR Readiness Report

Hunton Privacy

The impetuses for the survey were the many significant changes the GDPR will bring to companies’ management and processing of personal data, their privacy compliance programs and their IT systems and infrastructure. The survey questions focused on the GDPR topics most relevant to everyday business and compliance concerns.

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