Eine vertrauenswürdige Künstliche Intelligenz kann vielerlei Vorteile mit sich bringen, etwa eine Verbesserung im Bereich der Gesundheitsversorgung, umweltverträgliche und sicherere Verkehrsmittel, eine bessere Nutzung der Energie-Ressourcen durch effizientere Fertigung und damit letztlich geringere Kosten. Andererseits birgt sie Probleme, wie Undurchsichtigkeit, Komplexität und den sogenannten Bias. Der Rat der EU forderte daher im Oktober 2020, dass […]
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Foreign Entities Processing Personal Data in Turkey Must Appoint Representative by End of 2021
The Turkish Law on Personal Data Protection No. 6698 (DPL), which entered into force on April 7, 2016, prescribes that data controllers that are not established in Turkey but process personal data of subjects in Turkey („foreign controllers“) must appoint a data controller representative („representative“). This provision bears resemblance to article 27 of the EU […]
Italian Data Protection Authority Fines Bologna Airport in Connection with Whistleblowing Application
In an injunction of July 10, 2021, published the following month, the Italian data protection authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) has fined the Airport of Bologna € 40,000 for not having implemented adequate technical and organizational measures for a whistleblowing application. Further, the authority held that for that application, a data protection […]
Alle gedopt? Datenschutz vs Transparenz im Antidopingkampf
Die sind ja doch alle gedopt, war die Antwort eines befreundeten Radrennsportenthusiasten auf meine Frage, ob er sich die Tour de France anschaue. Daraus wird deutlich, wie die Reputation des Sports unter Dopingfällen leidet. Dies ist nicht nur für den Sport als solchen problematisch, sondern vor allem auch für die Athletinnen und Athleten, die sich […]
German Court Calls Alexa to the Stand
The Regensburg (Bavaria) Regional Court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for manslaughter based on evidence from voice recordings of an Alexa smart speaker. The Case The court found the perpetrator –reportedly a notorious stalker– guilty of manslaughter, as, to the persuasion of the court, the man had killed his ex-girlfriend by […]
COVID-19 – New Guidelines on the processing of health data for scientific research
On 21st April 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released new guidelines. As a preliminary remark, the EDPB sees that “there are currently great scientific research efforts in the fight against SARS-CoV-2”, which should lead to research results as soon as possible. At the same time, there are legal questions regarding the processing of […]
Data Protection Foundation Awards Journalist Prize
The year is coming to an end ever so rapidly – at least it feels like that for many of us. It is also the time of retrospection and of awards for this past year’s achievements. One such award is the Journalist Prize presented each year by Germany’s Data Protection Foundation, a private trust that […]
Swiss Hotel Booking Platform must comply with the GDPR
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has ordered a Swiss online hotel booking platform to comply with the requirements set forth in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in particular to provide the information according to Art. 13 GDPR to the data subject. The ordinance was based on the following facts: An Austrian citizen living […]
Datenschutz im Ehrenamt – Bericht vom DatenTag in Berlin
Am 13. November fand der von der Stiftung Datenschutz veranstaltete DatenTag zum Thema „Datenschutz im Ehrenamt“ in Berlin statt. Gleichzeitig wurde der Journalistenpreis 2019 der Stiftung Datenschutz verliehen. Durch die in den Räumlichkeiten der Stiftung Bethel stattgefundene Tagung führte Frederick Richter von der Stiftung Datenschutz. Der Teilnehmerkreis setzte sich u.a. aus Medienschaffenden, Datenschutzbeauftragten und Datenschutzjuristen […]
Online Training Data Protection
Trainings and awareness measures are not only an important step in the implementation of data protection requirements, but, especially for larger organizations, oftentimes a particular challenge. We would like to offer you a guideline in the format of a 15-minute online training. What exactly is it about? In order to meet the statutory training requirement, […]
Your Heart Rate Data Can Land You in Jail
This so happened in Ohio last fall, when a man was convicted of aggravated arson and insurance fraud based on evidence provided by the data from his cardiac pacemaker. A man, whose house had burnt down, was investigated against after traces of fire accelerant had been found by the police. The suspect claimed that he […]
Dopingkontrollen und Datenschutz
Im Rahmen der Doping-Bekämpfung müssen Leistungssportler mittels ADAMS (Anti-Doping Administration & Management System), einer Software der Welt-Anti-Doping-Agentur (WADA), online oder per App täglich ihren Aufenthaltsort im Vorfeld bekannt geben, um für unangekündigte Dopingkontrollen lokalisierbar zu sein. Neben datenschutzrechtlichen Implikationen mit Blick auf das Persönlichkeitsrecht der Sportler bringt das derzeitige System der WADA, auf das auch […]
Social Media Post-Truth
If it weren’t for the hyphen, one might say – finally! While it remains to be hoped that social media posts stay with the truth, this article discusses so-called fake news – a phenomenon that currently plagues us and is alleged to have influenced the recent presidential elections in the USA. The German word for […]