Eleanor Dodding

Senior Managing Associate, Sidley Austin

Eleanor Dodding advises international clients on a wide range of data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity matters, including advising on compliance with both the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and ePrivacy legislative frameworks, such as the EU ePrivacy Directive and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), alongside new EU and UK AI, digital data, and cyber laws.

She advises clients in a range of industries, with a particular focus on those in the life sciences, asset management and private equity, insurance, retail, payments, and technology sectors.

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Conducting clinical research—data protection implications

Practice Notes

This Practice Note explores the data protection implications of conducting clinical research. In particular, this Practice Note considers the responsibility for data protection compliance in the context of clinical research, the relevant legal grounds for processing personal data for research purposes, transparency requirements, collaborative research and data sharing as well as exceptions to data subject rights when processing personal data in the context of research. Finally, this Practice Note provides a checklist of practical data protection considerations to bear in mind when planning research activities.

Life Sciences