In the 2025 summer session, IT law will focus on the digitization of government processes, cybersecurity, and international data cooperation. Legislative reforms aim to improve efficiency and transparency, protect against abuse, and strengthen Switzerland's position as a center of innovation. Technological developments such as AI, blockchain, and cloud services require new frameworks and reinforce the call for coordinated, forward-looking regulation.

Various IT law topics are on the agenda for the 2024 fall session. For us lawyers, the discussion of the BEKJ is certainly exciting and interesting. In addition, some competition law topics from the digital sector will also be on the agenda. For instance, the parliament will discuss measures against foreign online marketplaces, as well as an improvement to defend against false online ratings.

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 healthcare.

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. 

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.

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.

In the Spring Session 2023, various IT law topics will be debated again. With the amendment of the Information Security Act (ISG) and the discussion of various initiatives on internet pedophilia, this time, the focus will be on cyber topics.