The stakes are high for FemTech – as Benjamin Franklin noted: ‘it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.’...more
7/19/2024
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) ,
EU ,
Mobile Health Apps ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Personal Data ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Sensitive Personal Information ,
Technology Sector ,
UK
In part one of our series "FemTech: how this growing industry can build trust, protect privacy and redress healthcare inequity… one app at a time", we take an introductory look at the industry, and offer some...more
3/11/2024
/ Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data-Sharing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) ,
Mobile Health Apps ,
Personal Data ,
Personalized Medicine ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
UK
Clearview AI Inc's successful challenge to the ICO’s £7.5 million fine focused on the limits of the UK GDPR’s jurisdictional reach, succeeding on the grounds that Clearview’s processing activities were outside the scope of...more
1/19/2024
/ Appeals ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Corporate Fines ,
Data Collection ,
Data Processors ,
EU ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Jurisdiction ,
Law Enforcement ,
Personal Data ,
UK GDPR
On 12 October the UK–U.S. “data bridge” becomes operational, providing an additional, compliant route for UK-outbound transfers of personal data to U.S. organisations that are EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework members. UK...more
10/12/2023
/ Adequacy Requirement ,
Biden Administration ,
Data Protection ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Privacy Framework ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
UK
On 28 June, the European Commission adopted its Adequacy Decision for the UK, putting to an end (at least for now), the uncertainty surrounding EU to UK personal data flows. This averted a “cliff edge” in the shape of the 30...more
UK businesses face a number of challenging interlocking issues in the run up to the end of the transition period on 31 December 2020. What could slip off the corporate risk radar are the smaller administrative matters....more