A proposed federal rule issued this week would, if finalized, bring wide-ranging changes for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplace, including a shorter open enrollment period in all states. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the proposed rule on March 10. A final rule would modify numerous regulations affecting consumers’ access … Read more
The Council of Europe (CoE) is preparing to amend its legal definition of terrorism, to largely replicate key elements of the European Union’s (EU) definition in its Counter-terrorism Directive 2017 (and previous Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism 2002). The proposed definition aims to make the CoE definition more comprehensive than the CoE’s existing Convention on … Read more
Xiaomi has published a new set of proposed global standards aimed at bolstering security of its consumer IoT products. “Users’ security and privacy is the top priority of Xiaomi, and we promise that this applies to all markets where we operate,” said Cui Baoqiu, Xiaomi vice president and chairman of Xiaomi Security and Privacy Committee. … Read more
Member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) are in the process of negotiating a new pandemic treaty to help tackle future pandemics. Yet as Clare Wenham, Mark Eccleston-Turner and Harry Upton explain, it remains unclear how the treaty will integrate with existing legal instruments. In 2021, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) began simultaneously … Read more
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction Member States’ ministers (the EU Council) are likely to agree a negotiating position this week on replacement of existing EU law on smuggling of migrants – raising questions in particular about the compatibility of this law with human rights, … Read more
