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

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For example, the consulting company Mckinsey found that the usage of telehealth has grown 38 times if compared to the usage before the pandemic. This convergence has created major privacy and data protection vulnerabilities and place healthcare and life sciences organizations at risk. The digitalization of the healthcare.

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New Cybersecurity Directives (NIS2 and CER) Enter into Force

Hunton Privacy

For example, the concept of “essential entities” replaces “operators of essential services”; it is likely that most organizations classified as “operators of essential services” under the original NIS Directive will be classified as “essential entities” under the NIS2 Directive.

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The Belgian Data Protection Authority Publishes Recommendation Concerning Data Processing for Direct Marketing Purposes

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The Belgian DPA defines direct marketing as any communication, solicited or unsolicited, aiming to promote an organisation, person, service, product, trademark, or idea, regardless of whether this communication is of commercial or non-commercial purpose. Necessity for Data Minimisation. How to Comply?

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New Data Protection-Friendly eCommercial Model Clinical Trial Agreements Now Available

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Given the increasing importance of safe but swift clinical trials in the time of coronavirus, this post outlines the main changes introduced from a data protection perspective and what they mean for contracting parties. The mCTA is entered into by the sponsor and the institution (i.e., mCTA and CRO-mCTA). What has changed? New Clause 6.3

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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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China’s First Data Protection Measures Lifting Its Veils

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Article 2 of the draft Data Security Measures states that the provisions therein govern all sector data processing activities (including, but not limited to, data collection, retention, transfer, and processing and use), that use cyber technologies within the territory of the People’s Republic of China.

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How does GDPR impact digital preservation solutions in the Cloud?

Preservica

Holding information in the cloud may also raise questions about territorial scope and transfers of personal data. As an example, AWS provides a GDPR Data Processing Agreement to help address these requirements.