Race for a Vaccine: Recordkeeping Implications for Pharmaceutical Companies
The world is in a race to manufacture and produce a safe vaccine for COVID-19. This has led to an unprecedented pace and volume of clinical trial documentation for the many companies and organizations competing...
Personal Data Transfers Post-Privacy Shield
The European Court of Justice’s recent move to strike down the US-EU privacy shield agreement has upended the bilateral personal data transfer framework and pulled the rug out from under numerous American businesses who work...
Data Protection Legislative Updates
Since the GDPR passed in 2018, we have seen an ongoing worldwide ripple effect, as other jurisdictions have begun passing their own data protection laws that mirror, or in many respects comply with GDPR requirements....
What’s in Your Privacy Data Policy?
The records and information management world has experienced a gradual yet seismic ideological shift in recent years. Long gone are the days of thinking solely in terms of HOW LONG MUST WE KEEP this information....
Pandemics and Personal Data
In light of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) viral disease officially being classified as a pandemic, nations around the world are grappling with how to best manage and prevent further spreading of the disease. One such measure...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Rise of Berlin Sanctions
Thirty years ago, this November, East and West Germans began crossing the Berlin Wall after the German Democratic Republic (GDR) announced that East German citizens could freely visit West Germany and West Berlin. Within a...