In fact, all national-level commands and agencies that receive DSP data were seeing the same thing.

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So what I think is needed in the short term, very much so and almost desperately, is first the ability of the government and responsibility of the government to command and receive on a continuing basis significant market data about all sorts of products and services whether they are regulated or not.

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First, a company can agree contractually with all its employees to afford their data the same heightened data privacy protections that it would receive in the EU. However, this does not apply to HR-related data because EU law presumes that negotiations between employer and employee with respect to such data necessarily involves duress, implicit or otherwise.

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Equally, drugs firms that demonstrate they have nothing to hide by giving full access to data could receive a massive boost in support from patients, medical staff and those all-important trial volunteers.

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