GDPR: A toothless tiger?
As already mentioned here several times, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the most important and at times also most discussed data protection laws in the European… Read More »GDPR: A toothless tiger?
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General Data Protection Regulation – Bureaucratic Monster or Misunderstood?
Whenever it comes to data protection in an intra-European context, there is no getting around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This regulation, adopted at EU level, has been in… Read More »General Data Protection Regulation – Bureaucratic Monster or Misunderstood?
Data Protection, Data Security and Privacy
In our everyday lives, the terms “data protection”, “data security” and “privacy” are often used in the same sentence and sometimes even as synonyms for each other. Although these terms… Read More »Data Protection, Data Security and Privacy
European Digital Sovereignty
Our daily life in the digital space is determined by American and increasingly Asian companies and platforms. So what about European digital independence and European sovereignty? Do we need more… Read More »European Digital Sovereignty
EU Chat-Control & Upload-Filter
On 11 May this year, the European Commission published a draft law “on the protection of children”. In fact, behind this vague wording lies the plan to make internet platforms… Read More »EU Chat-Control & Upload-Filter
Face Recognition and its Impact on Privacy
“Almost everyone in the world will be identifiable” – This quote comes from an investor meeting of the US company Clearview AI, which specializes in face recognition using artificial intelligence… Read More »Face Recognition and its Impact on Privacy
Why Privacy is an urgent Social Issue
Privacy is generally perceived as a problem on individual level, although it has an important, often neglected social component. We highlight the central issues and how they can be solved.
Encryption of E-Mails
E-mail is one of the oldest, most widely used and widespread messaging and web protocols on the internet. But how can communication via e-mail be securely and reliably encrypted?
Privacy Respecting Analytics
Surely, everyone has already heard the term “Web(site) Analytics” or a similar adaptation. And of course, it is obvious that in today’s world, we stumble upon analytics techniques at every… Read More »Privacy Respecting Analytics
State Surveillance
What is state surveillance? Can it endanger democracies? How does it affect our lives and thinking, and is it even purposeful? We have already talked about the tracking and analysis… Read More »State Surveillance