This Thursday 24 October 2019, I will have the pleasure to present the current state of the revision of the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act (DPA), as currently discussed at the Federal Parliament. I will be discussing the consequences for doctors in private practice in a conference organised by FMH Services, at the Hotel Aquatis in Lausanne.… Plus...
This 21 January 2019, the French data protection supervisory authority (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – the “CNIL“) fined Google LLC 50 million Euros for breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR“).
In today’s communication (in French), the French authority issued the highest fine against Google LLC since 25 May 2018 considering severe infringements of the GDPR by Google for failing to inform properly the users and collecting valid consent for targeted advertising services.… Plus...
Portugal initiates fines under the GDPR in the EU. The data protection supervisory authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados) issued a €400k fine against a hospital for three infringements of the GDPR. This article is the opportunity to analyse two elements:
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In healthcare, it is frequent for medical professionals and health institutions to outsource medical billing to a third party. There are many financial and practical advantages to subcontract such service. First, outsourcing can increase efficiency, by reducing the cost of performing these kinds of tasks by the employees.… Plus...
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What is a drone and what does it do? Drones are those little guided quadcopters (also called FPV drones for ‘First Person View’) that we can find in the FNAC or in Xtreme sport videos on Youtube. They can be used for civil (private, commercial or humanitarian) or military purposes.… Plus...
On Wednesday, 21 January 2015, the Swiss-German press reported the verdict handed down by the Swiss Federal Court in the Celine Case, better known to the media as the Yasmin Pills Case. This is a case that created a scandal in the canton of Zurich, as well as at the national level, concerning the use of the latest generation of contraceptive pills in Switzerland.… Plus...
In a recent decision (6B_691/2012 of February 21th, 2013), the Swiss Supreme Court confirmed that Swiss attorneys remain liable for the submission of electronic appeals. In this case, the attorney who has not verified that the appeal was properly received by the authority or the Court is liable. On the contrary, as technical service providers cannot guarantee a 100% available service, the submission of an electronic appeal is considered as a risk that shall be borne by the attorney if the provider gets down and cannot deliver the data to the court.… Plus...
