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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This fragmentation has, unsurprisingly, lead to a heavy administrative burden for the secondary users of social and health care data by parallel and slow licence procedures with various authorities. The decisions on licenses are subject to an appeal.

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

Perhaps, such lack of seriousness towards cybersecurity is the reason why businesses tend to suffer loss of users’ personal data, millions of dollars in resulting damages and, eventually, the loss of reputation in the industry. Encryption plays an integral role in securing the online data as well as its integrity.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2021 – 223.6 million records breached

IT Governance

Community Medical Centers, Inc.

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

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to analyst firm IDC , 93% of pharmaceutical companies and 72% of biotech companies already have business-critical applications in the cloud, including product lifecycle management, analytics, revenue management, and much more. How to protect healthcare data from a cyber attack pandemic.

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. Such data security practices shall be appropriate to the volume and nature of the personal data at issue.”.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

Who will the data be shared with: According to the Notice, data collected may be shared with a number of third parties including, for example, “research organisations, including universities, charities, clinical research organisations that run clinical trials and pharmaceutical companies”.