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19 Jun 2019

Data Protection and Mergers & Acquisitions: Legal issues

The due diligence period of any merger and acquisition includes an analysis of risks of a potential merger or acquisition for both parties. The analysis focuses on legal, business and other issues that the acquiring party would have
18 May 2019

5 Basic Legal Issues of Agile software development

It would be ridiculous to start an article about agile software development with an obvious statement, such as: Agile software development is becoming very popular in a technological world. However, it is not ridiculous to say, that
16 Apr 2019

EU General Data Protection Regulation and its impact on health data, multichannel retailers or employers

Many authors wrote about an impact of the GDPR on specific industries. At HL Data protection, the author analyzed the use of health data. For this area, the author found important to note that: further processing of
10 Mar 2019

Data protection: 4 criteria to evaluate, if data subject is identifiable

As was already examined at dataitlaw.com, one of the best ways, how to use data for commercial or other purposes, is to make them anonymous. Once data are anonymous, there is no need to satisfy legal requirements
18 Feb 2019

Data protection and anonymous data: European law perspective

There are several legal ways, how to collect and process data. The article describes the legal regulation of the use of anonymous data under the Directive 95/46/EC (find full text here, referred to as “Directive 95/46/EC”) and
30 Jan 2019

The Dark Side of the Use of Big Data by Lawyers

The majority of articles about the use of Big Data by lawyers describes its possibilities and how it might improve the legal practice (here, here, here, here or also data & it law). That´s good, since lawyers
28 Dec 2018

Big Data and Law: 3 tools for the use of data with contracts

At dataitlaw, we have already addressed the use of data in law. The article described companies, using data for cases outcome prediction, costs evaluation, legal e-discovery or evidence in court (and many more). This article develops the