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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Solo lo stato può imporre un obbligo di vaccinazione

Il Tribunale di Messina, con ordinanza del 12 dicembre 2020, ha disposto la disapplicazione del Decreto con il quale l’Assessorato Regionale della Salute della Regione Sicilia disponeva un obbligo di vaccinazione...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Why It Matters Whether Hashed Passwords Are Personal Information Under U.S. Law

On January 22, 2021, Bleeping Computer reported about yet another data dump by the hacker group Shiny Hunters, this time for a clothing retailer. Shiny Hunters is known for exfiltrating large databases of customer...more

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Protecting your investment in databases created in the UK or the EU during the transition period (and afterwards)

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The UK introduced the free-standing (‘sui generis’) EU database right in 1997. This right gives protection to a maker of a database, where a substantial investment has been made in either obtaining, verifying or presenting...more

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European Chemicals Agency SCIP Database is launched and ready for use

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At the end of October, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) launched the SCIP database. When populated, the database will ensure that information on articles in the EU that contain substances of very high concern (SVHCs) is...more

Hogan Lovells

In wake of the Schrems II, CNIL challenges use of Microsoft cloud storage to host public health data lakes (the Health Data Hub...

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On October 8, 2020, France’s data protection authority (CNIL) provided the French Administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d’Etat) with a brief presenting its arguments against the hosting of some French public health data by...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Impact of Brexit on IP Rights

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From 31 January 2020, the UK is no longer an EU Member State. This article outlines the main impacts of Brexit on intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, designs and models, copyrights, and sui generis...more

Hogan Lovells

Europe: Blockchain – Practical and legal challenges

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The increasing digitization of the private as well as economic realm is undeniable. The European Commission is constantly pushing the Digital Single Market forward. In the same breath as the ubiquitous phenomenon of...more

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EMA Green Lights New EudraVigilance System for Adverse Reactions, Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Update, Vol. IV, Issue III

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On May 22, 2017, the European Medicines Agency ("EMA") announced the full functionality of the new EudraVigilance system for the collection and monitoring of suspected adverse reactions with medicinal products that are...more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

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On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

Hogan Lovells

EMA Update concerning EU Clinical Trials portal and database

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Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/20/EC (“the Clinical Trials Regulation”) was adopted and entered into force in 2014. The...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Data for the Taking: Using Website Terms and Conditions to Combat Web Scraping

Is it stealing to take data without permission from a public website, or is it simply making use of resources that are made available to you? “Web scraping” or “screen scraping” is the practice of extracting large amounts of...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EU NanoSafety Cluster Begins Database Survey

The European Union (EU) NanoSafety Cluster announced on March 18, 2014, the availability of an online nanosafety database survey. According to the EU Nanosafety Cluster, this is the first survey in a biannual effort to...more

Cohen & Gresser LLP

US Tech Companies May Soon be Required to Report Security Breaches to the EU

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U.S. based tech companies that store data on the Internet may soon be required to report the loss or theft of personal information to the E.U. or face sanctions and fines according to legislation being proposed by the...more

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