Implications of GDPR for
US-Headquartered Life Sciences
and Biotech Companies

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In 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and, in addition to being one of the strictest privacy laws in the world, introduced a wide-ranging extraterritorial effect. The GDPR severely impacts how companies doing business in Europe collect and use personal information. Please join Jan Dhont, a Partner in WSGR's Brussels office, as he discusses the implications of European privacy laws for US-headquartered life sciences and biotech companies. Jan has been counseling on privacy and cybersecurity matters for more than 20 years and was previously a legal advisor at the Belgian Data Protection Authority.

Topics to be discussed include:

  • What triggers the application of the GDPR and which are the main obligations flowing from it.
  • How the GDPR impacts the use of data in cross-border research or operations, more in particular how to:
    • lawfully collect patient and other information from EU citizens;
    • ensure compliance with the EU data export rules;
    • accommodate patients' and other individual's rights;
    • use anonymization and pseudonymization;
    • set up a robust contractual framework for service providers and subcontractors;
    • enforcement tendencies and much more.

Presenter

Jan Dhont
 Partner
WSGR

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Registration/Lunch - 11:00 a.m. Eastern
Program - 11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Eastern

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
28 State Street
37th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

 

This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.5 hours, all of which will apply to general credit. No hours will apply to legal ethics, competence issues, or to recognition and elimination of bias credit.

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