The legal buzz words for the year will still be ‘safe harbour’, data protection breach and the ‘new Data Protection Regulation’. However in the ‘real’ and ‘commercial’ world:
• cyber risk insurance will become more prevalent and we will see it become more common to list it in commercial contracts and tenders as a requirement
• pharmaceutical companies will see a rise in the use of big data and wearable technologies
• health care providers could require us to show our fit band outputs when assessing our health needs
• car insurers could use evidence from our electronic dashboards and data boxes on our vehicles to monitor use of our vehicles – in the name of reducing our premiums.
{b}Beverley Flynn –Data Protection and IT Team at Stevens & Bolton LLP, where she is a Partner {/b}
