Are Wearables Medical Devices Requiring a CE-Mark in the EU? (Covington)

Authors: Charlotte Ryckman and Delphine Marchal (Covington) Publication date: 18/01/2019 Wearable watches that help consumers obtain a better understanding of their eating patterns; wearable clothes that send signals to treating physicians; smart watches: they are but a few examples of the increasingly available and increasingly sophisticated “wearables” on the EU market. These technologies are an integrated part of many…

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Google fined €50 million in France for GDPR violation (Covington)

Authors: Kristof Van Quathem, Jetty Tielemans, Anna Oberschelp de Meneses and Nicholas Shepherd (Covington) Publication date: 22/01/2019 On January 21, 2019, the French Supervisory Authority for data protection (“CNIL”) issued a fine of €50 million against Google for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (the decision was published in French here).  The CNIL’s decision was triggered by complaints from two…

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