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 ...

Google's scientist Sergei Vassilvitskii has warned the European Commission that its anonymisation method for forced search-data sharing under the DMA can be broken in less than two hours.

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 ...

Harnessing health data is a key priority for life sciences companies as it enables more effective scientific research, better tailored clinical trials and investigations, and targeted drug development ...

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," ...

We, I mean members of the MRS Market Research Standards Board, spent a lot of early 2014 finalising the revised Code of Conduct, published by the MRS this autumn. In particular, we spent a lot of time ...

The Tor browsing anonymisation service has urged users to upgrade their software after attackers broke into several Tor servers. Two of the seven servers that run Tor directory authorities were ...

Google's Chrome browser has a design flaw that renders privacy protection services such as Tor ineffective, according to developers. The bug affects Chrome version 3.0.195.33, according to an advisory ...