With the healthcare industry relying heavily on data for medical research and surveillance studies, it is critically important that sponsors, study sites and CROs know when data falls within the remit ...

In a previous article, Nick Stringer from IAB UK explained how the EU wants to regulate the use of data on the Internet and why this might go too far when it comes to data-driven business models. My ...

THE European Union is home to 512m people. From May 25th firms wishing to handle data that pertain to any of those people will have to comply with a new set of privacy rules called the General Data ...

As business and society become ever more data rich, data minimisation techniques equally become increasingly important, writes Mason Hayes & Curran. In August 2016, the Data Protection Commissioner ...

The introduction of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) places strict controls on businesses that collect, use, and share data from European citizens. Companies – EU-based or otherwise ...

On 25 May 2018 the world will change. Personal data — arguably today’s most valuable currency and the lynchpin of digital advertising — will be managed by a strict new rulebook: the General Data ...

In this Fifth (& Sixth) Series of Article, we learn how Data is to be treated as per the Indian PDPB2019. The entire applicability is summarised in Section 2 of the Act which states as under Indian ...

Mason Hayes & Curran takes a closer look at some of the anonymisation techniques referenced in the Data Protection Commissioner’s guidance. The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) recently published ...