Our whitepaper “Cloud for Healthcare” is now available in English. Moving data to the cloud can raise concerns about security, privacy, and compliance for healthcare players. However, it is important to know that the cloud can meet or even exceed these requirements, and that it offers many benefits for business operations. The new whitepaper “Cloud for Healthcare” explains how modern and mature cloud services can overcome legal challenges and enhance efficiency, flexibility, and innovation. The whitepaper can be downloaded for free and provides insight into how the cloud can transform healthca ..read more

In the most recent special of Netzwoche journal, Christian Laux explains what is meant by digital sovereignty and explains why digital sovereignty is a matter for states: “A cloud solution does not need to be sovereign. States should be sovereign.” Netzwoche’s Cloud & Managed Services Special was published on 6 December 2023. The issue is dedicated to digital sovereignty in the cloud and the question of whether this is even possible.  ..read more

In the winter session 2023, the Parliament will again deal with various IT law topics.   ..read more

In the fall session 2023, the Parliament will again deal with various IT law topics. Most of the topics to be addressed are ultimately aimed at faster and more efficient digitization of Switzerland. In addition, cyber security continues to be an area of interest.  ..read more

Combining his passion for data and privacy law with his passion for music, Thomas Steiner created a Privacy Notice for wind band/orchestra associations and musicians. The template is available here open access for use under a Creative Commons license ..read more

Our new whitepaper is here! “Cloud for healthcare – solutions for common concerns – not only in healthcare organizations”. We provide an overview of health data in the cloud, highlight specific cloud use cases from the healthcare sector and, as usual, discuss common caveats and possible solutions from a legal perspective. This should give cloud users (not only in healthcare) new perspectives and enable real as well as fact-based risk decisions. We hope you enjoy reading this issue ..read more

Christian Laux and Sven Kohlmeier will be discussing current IT law topics regularly for inside-it.ch. In the first edition, they put the “Swiss Cloud” at the centre of the debate ..read more

The goal of the Certified Senders Alliance (CSA) is to increase the quality of commercial e-mails. For this purpose, CSA regularly revises its “Directive for Permissible Email Marketing” for the EU area. Perica Grasarevic has listed the Swiss particularities from a practice-oriented perspective in a legal comparison starting in Chapter 6.3. The revised DPA, the UCA and the TCA serve as the legal basis ..read more

Implementation of the requirements of the new Swiss Data Protection Act in seven working steps. Here you will find Thomas Steiner’s article on the topic, which appeared in Anwaltsrevue 10/2022. It offers guidelines and food for thought – not only for law firms ..read more

On the occasion of the bitmark Hackathon from 24 – 26 March 2023, Christian Laux emphasises the importance of data standards in his latest Lex Laux column ..read more