April 5, 2023 Virtual Coffee with Consulting: What on Earth is Going on with ChatGPT and What Does it Have to do with IG? ChatGPT is just one of many ventures pushing the boundaries of large language models and AI. The technology is fascinating, but ChatGPT isn’t the only example. And clearly, the sexiness of…
On August 20, 2021, China adopted the Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (“PIPL”), its first comprehensive national data privacy law and one of the most sweeping and restrictive national privacy laws to date. Modeled largely off the GDPR and set to go into effect on November 1, the PIPL regulates…
Virginia has just become the second U.S. state to enact a comprehensive privacy protection law. After passage by overwhelming majorities in both the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act[1] (“VCDPA”) was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam on March 2. While lawmakers in several other states like New…
If the last year has taught us anything, it is to sanitize, sanitize, sanitize. You are probably sanitizing your hands, your house, everything you touch, but what about the personal information you process? Laws and regulations increasingly require entities to sanitize, pseudonymize or anonymize the personal information that they collect or process. Other than defining…
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. Here are a few such new or upcoming laws worth noting: Brazil – General Data Protection Law (LGPD) (Law…
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 we see being taken, especially in early stages of the fight, is contact tracing, where persons infected with the virus…
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 short amount of time, both Easterners and Westerners started tearing down parts of the Wall, symbolizing the subsequent wearing down…
Companies today are maximizing the value and usability of information like never before. Unfortunately, so are cybercriminals. During the first half of 2018, more than 3.3 billion records were compromised, with malicious outsiders being a major cause.[1] In the fight against cyber breaches, companies are at a steep disadvantage for many reasons. First, the internet…
On January 23, 2019, the European Data Protection Board (the “Board”) released its opinion here on the interplay between the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Clinical Trials Regulation (“CTR”). The opinion comments on a draft of FAQs prepared by the European Commission on the same topic and provides insight into how the…
Are you attending MER Conference 2019? We are! And we can’t wait to connect with you. Follow the link to register, then, be sure to schedule a 1:1 meeting with us to discuss your pain points and learn more about managing electronic records. You may not realize that Zasio is known for both top-shelf software tools…