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.

The summer session of 2024 will feature a few IT law topics on the agenda. In summary, the focus is on advancing the digitization of administrative tasks and further standardizing data exchange.

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.

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.

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.