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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United States | Publication | November 2022
On October 21, 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services, along with the FBI and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), issued a bulletin warning that a cyber threat actor group known as "Daixin Team," is actively targeting US businesses, predominantly in the healthcare and public health sectors, with ransomware and data extortion operations. The bulletin contains several technical recommendations that should be passed along and, if possible, implemented by your IT teams.
But cybersecurity begins at the top of an organization, a point the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) emphasized in a proposed consent issued on October 24. In that matter, the FTC alleged that a company's failure to use appropriate information security practices was the responsibility of the CEO. The FTC alleged that the CEO did not implement, or properly delegate responsibility to implement, reasonable information security practices, by failing to hire an executive responsible for information security—although he hired executives for many other areas. In the proposed consent, that individual, for the next 10 years, will be responsible for ensuring that any future company where he is a majority owner or CEO (or similar position) has implemented and maintains a comprehensive information security program.
If you have questions about implementing your security program or conducting ongoing risk assessments, please contact the Norton Rose Fulbright professionals listed below.
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Over the past two years, Spain has significantly strengthened its foreign investment screening mechanism, and all acquisitions by foreign investors (as defined below) of a Spanish entity active in a strategic sector are subject to prior authorisation by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism (“MoICT”).
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