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.

Are you in charge of implementing the new Swiss data protection law in your company? This checklist provides guidelines for implementation in seven work steps.

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.

Various IT law topics will again be dealt with in the 2022 winter session. We provide an overview. The focus is on various digitalisation initiatives. Particularly noteworthy is the consultation on the Federal Act on Digitalisation in the Notary's Offices.

Thomas Steiner and co-panellist Pascale Schwerzmann discussed with the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) how IT professionals can contribute to operationalising compliance with the requirements of the new Swiss Federal Data Protection Act at SI’s EveningTalk of 20 October 2022. Here’s the presentation from Thomas Steiner’s keynote.

The new Swiss Data Protection Act (nFDPA) will enter into force on 1 September 2023. At this year’s annual conference of the Swiss Bar Association (SBA), Thomas Steiner addressed the new requirements and their implementation in law firms. The presentation (in German), which can be downloaded here, contains a checklist for the implementation of the nFDPA – not only for law firms. The presentation focuses, in particular, on tips for the creation and implementation of the records of processing activities, the drafting and implementation of privacy notices and for vendor management.