As of July 2019, the National Health Service in the Great Britain has founded the NHSX by combining teams from the UK Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and the NHS Improvement. The NHSX is a digital health and social care transformation program designed to improve the UK’s long-term plans with regard to […]
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France and Apps/Websites: What do the latest CNIL recommendations say?
The Comission Nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, the French Data Protection Authority (‘CNIL’) published FAQs and a new guideline regarding cookies on October 1st, 2020. This guideline that was previously publicly consulted between January 14th to February 25th, 2020 has been developed in consultation with digital advertising stakeholders and civil societies. Stakeholders are requested […]
USA: Email marketing rules under the CAN-SPAM Act
There exists a misconception across Europe that the USA does not have any state laws enacted which protect consumer rights and privacy of consumers. The European Commission has enacted a very powerful tool with the implementation and development of the GDPR, which sometimes makes us reconsider other country’s rules. The USA has a wide range […]
B2B Marketing Days in Würzburg – Data Protection meets Marketing
The two-day conference “B2B Marketing Days” by marconomy took place in Würzburg from October 15-16 2019. The conference is a specialist’s conference for medium-sized companies discussing B2B specific marketing challenges, facilitate knowledge and Best Practice exchange via interactive formats and seeks to support cross-company networking activities. Around 350 participants and workshop lecturers have joined the […]
How Will the German Data Protection Authorities Determine Fines For Companies? – The DSK Publishes a New Concept.
On October 14, 2019, the German Conference of Data Protection Authorities (DSK) published a concept for determining fines in accordance with the GDPR. In some regards, this concept resembles the model of the Berlin Data Protection Authority which was presented in June of this year (we reported in German), but some aspects remain less concrete. […]
Annual Report of the Finish Data Protection Authority
The Finnish data protection authority (the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman) has recently published its annual reports on May 17th 2019.[1] This short article summarizes the most interesting fact regarding the English summary report. Major Focus Points of the Finnish Data Protection Authority The authority plans to focus until 2020 on the data subject’s […]
Facebook’s response to the ECJ decision on Fanpages. Is this decision being adequately implemented?
As result of the latest European Court of Justice decision regarding the administration of Facebook fanpages, Facebook has recently published an Agreement for data processing activities that aims to comply with the said ruling.(Available here). This article contains an analysis from a data protection law perspective that will determine if the solution implemented by Facebook […]
The obligatory sharing of clinical trial data in the European Union
The European Union aims at entering a new era of clinical trials by enforcing the steps towards personalized medicine. Instead of searching for the best therapy to treat a certain diagnosis, they are moving towards pursuing the best suitable individual therapy. To meet this approach, Big Data technologies have developed new therapies and potential positive […]