Myria Saarinen#11861

Myria Saarinen

Attorney with the Paris Bar, Latham & Watkins
Myria Saarinen, former Global Co-Chair of the Technology Industry Group, represents domestic and international clients in all types of civil and commercial complex litigation matters. She also leads the data protection practice in Paris.

Ms. Saarinen draws on two decades’ experience as a litigator and her comprehensive understanding of her clients’ business and commercial needs to efficiently resolve a broad range of complex, cross-border disputes across industries. She advises on:

• French litigation disputes, including corporate litigation
• Alternative dispute resolution, in mediation or arbitration
• Cross-border issues, such as conflicts of laws and US discovery requests
• GDPR compliance programs, particularly for adtech companies
• Regulatory GDPR inquiries
• Multijurisdictional cybersecurity event response
• GDPR claims brought by individuals and class actions

She crafts pragmatic, commercially oriented solutions to clients’ business challenges, approaching each matter with the strength of the firm’s global platform.

A recognized firm leader, Ms. Saarinen serves on the Ethics and Privacy Committees of the firm. She previously served as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (AML) for the Paris office and on the Pro Bono and IT Committees.

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Digital health—data protection and privacy case studies
Digital health—data protection and privacy case studies
Practice Notes

This Practice Note examines data protection considerations in relation to digital health. It first explains the general concept of digital health, which encompasses mHealth, mobile apps, telemedicine, machine learning, etc, and provides some background on the increasing use of digital health solutions in the life sciences sector. It also provides an overview of the regulatory authorities and key stakeholders in different jurisdictions: EU, UK, France and Germany. This Practice Note then analyses the data protection challenges posed by digital health through three different case studies, covering a wide range of digital health technology applications: wearables (ie devices that remotely monitor patients in real time in non-clinical environments to improve patient care and medical diagnosis), artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic tools (ie AI tool which analyses mammograms and radiology images to predict diagnosis) and digital health records (ie medical software). Key concepts of applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), are examined through these case studies: role of the relevant parties (controller, processor or joint controller of personal data), applicable legal basis, transparency, accuracy, anonymisation, special category data, secondary use of personal data, security, data transfers, data hosting, data subject rights, and cookies.

Practice Area

Panel

  • Contributing Author

Qualified Year

  • 1999

Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Degree, (Copyright and IP Law (DEA)), University of Paris II (1998)
  • Graduate Degree English and French Law, University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) (1997)
  • LLB, King's College London (1997)
  • Paris Bar (1999)

Education

  • University of Paris II (1998)
  • University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) (1997)
  • King's College London (1997)

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