#316 Does Taking Control of Your Health Mean Losing Control of Your Data? The Privacy Risks of Healthcare Apps
Release Date: 03/10/2025
#321 What Is Happening at the UK CMA? Impact of the Government’s New Approach
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The UK government elected in 2024 has a "growth" agenda and is pushing regulators including the UK Competition and Markets Authority to support this. What does the approach mean for the CMA? Veronica Roberts, lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, joins Blair Matthews and Matthew Hall to discuss the wide range of recent announcements and proposals from the CMA and government. Listen to this episode to learn more about the CMA's future approach to enforcement of the UK merger control, antitrust, consumer protection and digital markets rules. With special guest: Veronica Roberts, lawyer, Herbert...
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#320 What Can In-House Counsel Do To Tame the Premerger Notification Beast? Practical Suggestions for Complying With the New HSR Rules
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New disclosure requirements for U.S. premerger notifications under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act were announced in the fall of 2024 and became effective in February 2025. What are the practical implications of the new requirements for in-house counsel tasked with preparing for an HSR filing? In this episode, Matt Bester and Paul Covaleski of Accenture LLP talk to Alicia Downey and Matt Tabas about some concrete suggestions for accurately and cost-effectively identifying and assembling the newly-required information and documents. Listen and learn some tips that will be useful not only for in-house...
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#319 Can We Define Overlapping Markets? Understanding the Legal and Economic Arguments
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#318 How Hot Is Cartel Enforcement Around the Globe? Checking the Forecast for 2025 and Beyond
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Cartel enforcement remains a priority for agencies around the world, but in recent years enforcers have continued to focus on domestic cases. With political and personnel changes in the U.S. and across the globe, what can we expect in 2025 and beyond? John Terzaken, Partner and Global Co-Chair of Simpson Thacher’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice, joins James Hunsberger and Jaclyn Phillips to discuss his latest cartel enforcement forecast and what has changed since his 2022 forecast. Listen to this episode to learn more about likely enforcement priorities from the Trump DOJ and global...
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#317 Is Artificial Intelligence Putting Data Privacy at Risk?: A New Wave of Investigations in Europe
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The AI revolution has arrived, with the recent debut of Chinese AI bot DeepSeek confirming that this is a global market. But what are the data privacy implications of the massive amounts of personal data that companies are collecting to train and deploy their AI models? Rory Macmillan, an expert in data protection and privacy law, joins Alicia Downey and Derek Jackson to discuss recent investigations by European enforcers into artificial intelligence companies. Listen to this episode to learn more about the analysis of AI under the GDPR and the issues that European regulators are grappling...
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#316 Does Taking Control of Your Health Mean Losing Control of Your Data? The Privacy Risks of Healthcare Apps
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Millions of us use mobile apps to help manage our physical and mental health and wellbeing. How well does existing law protect the private health data collected by these apps? In this episode, hosts Alicia Downey and Kelsey Paine talk to privacy and cybersecurity law expert David Turetsky about the issues posed by healthcare apps that collect sensitive data relating to a user's mental health, reproductive cycle, dietary habits, or fitness, to name only a few examples. Listen and catch up on U.S. federal and state enforcement challenges to app companies that engage in the unauthorized...
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#315 Are You In or Are You Out? Using Economics to Identify and Quantify Potential Class Members
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Private class action lawsuits play a significant role in the vindication and development of U.S. antitrust law. But what are attorneys and courts to do when they know there's an injured class, but are not quite sure who's in it and who's not? Tram Nguyen, Ph.D., an economist and Managing Principal at Edgeworth Economics, joins Alicia Downey and Matt Reynolds to discuss how economic analysis can help overcome issues with ascertaining class membership, particularly in the context of the pharmaceutical industry. Listen to this episode to learn more about not only the "ascertainability"...
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#314 A New Era for Private Antitrust Litigation in China? Impact of the June 2024 Judicial Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court
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Private antitrust litigation has long been part of the landscape in China. What will be the impact of the Supreme People's Court latest judicial interpretation on the issue? Susan (Xuanfeng) Ning, lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons in Beijing, joins Matthew Hall and Anora Wang to discuss the background to the judicial interpretation and its likely consequences. Listen to this episode to learn more about this important development in Chinese antitrust law and practice. With special guest: Susan (Xuanfeng) Ning, lawyer, King & Wood Mallesons Related Links: Hosted by: Matthew Hall,...
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#313 Who’s Blocking Me? Competition Law Issues With Healthcare Information Blocking
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When it comes to your health, having digitized information available for seamless sharing across multiple healthcare providers and other stakeholders -- including patients themselves -- is a clear benefit. But can certain actors disrupt the goal of interoperability? David Schwartz, a healthcare-focused antitrust lawyer, joins Jeny Maier and Matt Tabas to introduce us to the challenge of healthcare information blocking and what avenues are available to enforcers to address this behavior. Listen to this episode if you're curious about how competition law principles play a part in ensuring that...
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#312 What New Direction Will Europe Take? New Ideas and New Leadership at the European Commission
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How is the European Commission rethinking its approach to competition policy and enforcement as new leadership takes the helm, including the appointment of Spain's Teresa Ribera as the European Commissioner for Competition? Alicia Downey and Subrata Bhattacharjee talk to John Davies, Senior Advisor at the Brunswick Group, about the changing landscape of EU competition policy and its implications for merger investigations and other proceedings. Listen to this episode to hear what effect these policy changes may have on firms in and outside the EU, and why the Scarlets are John's favorite Welsh...
info_outlineMillions of us use mobile apps to help manage our physical and mental health and wellbeing. How well does existing law protect the private health data collected by these apps? In this episode, hosts Alicia Downey and Kelsey Paine talk to privacy and cybersecurity law expert David Turetsky about the issues posed by healthcare apps that collect sensitive data relating to a user's mental health, reproductive cycle, dietary habits, or fitness, to name only a few examples. Listen and catch up on U.S. federal and state enforcement challenges to app companies that engage in the unauthorized disclosure of personal health data, and how a changing legal landscape may be posing an increased threat to health data privacy rights.
With special guest:
David Turetsky, Professor of Practice, College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, SUNY Albany
Related Links:
David Turetsky, "Health Privacy: Identifying Some Key Issues" (Feb. 6, 2025)
Hosted by:
Alicia Downey, Downey Law LLC and Kelsey Paine, Baker Botts LLP