When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to...

1. Introduction -- 2. Players in the German FinTech industry -- 3. FinTechs and data protection -- 4. FinTechs and data protection after the implementation of the GDPR -- 5. FinTech business models -- 6. Need for regulation in the German FinTech market -- 7. A summary in eleven theses

Einleitung -- Die FinTech-Akteure in Deutschland -- FinTechs und Datenschutz -- FinTechs und Datenschutz nach Einführung der DS-GVO -- FinTech-Geschäftsmodelle -- Regulierungsbedarf im deutschen FinTech-Markt -- Eine Zusammenfassung in elf Thesen

When using digital devices and services, individuals provide their personal data to organizations in exchange for gains in various domains of life. Organizations use these data to run technologies such as smart assistants, augmented reality, and robotics. Most often, these organizations seek to...

This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...

Chapter 1. Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Platforms as a Triple Challenge for Economic Regulation -- Chapter 2. Regulatory Competition in the Digital Economy – The Theory, the Framework and a Few Applications -- Chapter 3. Platform Competition in the Age of Networked Platforms -- Chapter...

This open access book describes the most important legal sources and principles of data privacy and data protection in China, Germany and the United States. The authors collected privacy statements from more than 400 crowdsourcing platforms, which allowed them to empirically evaluate their data...