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 ...

This is the last in a series of three articles examining the legal and ethical dilemmas faced when using new mediums and data sources for healthcare market research and data analytics, following on ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December last year, David Cameron announced that it was "simply a waste" to have a health service like the NHS and not use the data it generated. "Let me be clear, this does not threaten privacy," ...

To protect privacy, data collected about us is sometimes anonymised before being used, such as for scientific research or by advertising companies wanting to hone their algorithms. The process ...

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 ...

“The guideline on anonymization of data were [sic] withdrawn to ensure harmonization with other policies under consideration and reassessing their completeness,” said India’s IT Ministry in parliament ...