Die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) gilt als Basistechnologie des 21. Jahrhunderts und führt, wenn auch in unterschiedlichen Geschwindigkeiten, zu drastischen Veränderungen in praktisch allen Industrien. Die Finanzbranche gehört dabei zu den Industrien, welche bereits heute mit am stärksten von...

Many people implicitly sell or give away their data when using online services and participating in loyalty programmes-despite growing concerns about company’s use of private data. Our paper studies potential reasons and co-variates that contribute to resolving this apparent paradox, which has...

Applications of algorithmically informed decisions are becoming entrenched in society,with data processing being their main process and ingredient. While these applications areprogressively gaining momentum, established data protection and privacy rules have struggledto incorporate the...

It is 2038. In our data-driven future, data has been firmly established as an economicasset and new, data-driven smart technologies have changed the way we live, work, love, thinkand vote. However, privacy laws provide a powerful counterbalance against data usage, stiflinginnovation. Joanne...

As technology continues to innovate at lightning speeds and technology becomes more central to everyday life, personal data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an important precedent in the world of data protection...

Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, "Big Tech" platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail? Despite the high stakes involved, this topic has received only limited attention to date. In this...

We examine and compare data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions: Baidu, Toutiao and its international version TopBuzz, Douyin and its international version TikTok, and WeChat. Together, these four applications represent popular Chinese...

With the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal, online surveillance clearly showed its negative effects. However, few individuals were able to recover any damages from the data protection violation that occurred. The EU General Data Protection Regulation contains legal tools to coordinate the...

Die nachfolgende Arbeit beschreibt in drei Teilen die Einführung der Datenschutz- Grundverordnung (DS-GVO). Dabei wird eine Variante zur Umsetzung der Vorgaben der am 25.05.2018 eingeführten Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ebenfalls aufgezeigt. Im ersten Teil werden die relevanten Artikel der...

The day after the news of Libra came out, it is said that Ma Huateng said on WeChat: "Libra has no technical problems, the main problem is about regulatory issues." I think this sentence is very simple, but it reflects many of his experiences, and I think it is correct. Many people's analysis of...

This paper analyzes consumers' privacy choice concerning their private data and firms' ensuing pricing strategy. The General Data Protection Regulation passed by the European Union in May 2018 allows consumers to decide whether to reveal private information in the form of cookies to an online...

Die Europäische Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) erhöht das Schutzniveau von personenbezogenen Daten und vereinheitlicht es europaweit. Reagieren müssen darauf alle Unternehmen, die personenbezogene Daten verarbeiten. Dies hat ganz unterschiedliche unmittelbare und mittelbare Auswirkungen...

The development of new technologies in the last few years turned internet into a commercial medium that has transformed businesses all over the world. Indeed, we can be connected to internet from anywhere and anytime we want, with just one click. This evolution made the world interconnected and...

Applications of algorithmically informed decisions are becoming entrenched in society,with data processing being their main process and ingredient. While these applications areprogressively gaining momentum, established data protection and privacy rules have struggledto incorporate the...

The essay is written in the form of a magazine article published in 2039 - eleven yearsafter the introduction of NeoTouch, a technology facilitating digital touch as human-to-humancommunication based on a brain-computer interface (BCI). The article follows Barbara, a youngwoman who recently had...

It is 2038. In our data-driven future, data has been firmly established as an economicasset and new, data-driven smart technologies have changed the way we live, work, love, thinkand vote. However, privacy laws provide a powerful counterbalance against data usage, stiflinginnovation. Joanne...

This paper uses extensive firm-level data on Europe-an and US companies from 2014-2018 to explore the short-term impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on European companies' financial performance.Our empirical analysis suggests that the costs of the GDPR during the first year...

Welche Herausforderungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten bestehen bei Systemen zur Arbeitszeiterfassung und ihrer Einbettung in der betrieblichen Praxis? Wo gibt es juristische und datenschutzrechtliche Schwachstellen? Diese Fragen stellen sich gerade bei mobiler Arbeit - und nach dem Urteil des...

Background: Monitoring and surveillance are a fundamental part of the workplace environment, with employee performance and productivity as the main objects of scrutiny. However, many questions surround the ethical nature of managements' ability to employ advanced digital technologies to monitor...

We investigate the strategies of a data intermediary selling consumer information to firms for price discrimination purpose. We analyze how the mechanism through which the data intermediary sells information influences how much consumer information she will collect and sell to firms, and how...

Many organisations collect data about their processes, customers, the use of their products, and many other topics in order to analyse these data in the context of data mining, big data, machine learning, and similar approaches. However, in most cases such data refer to individual people, and...

Background IoT and smart devices have become extremely popular in the last few years. With their capabilities to collect data, it is reasonable to have concerns about the protection of users' personal information and privacy in general. Objectives Comparing existing regulations on data...

Die Datenerhebung mit neuer Informationstechnologie - also mit Smartphones, Wearables und anderen Sensoren - eröffnet der Wissenschaft ungeahnte Potenziale. Sensoren können Daten z.B. zu Aufenthaltsorten, Bewegungen, Geräuschen, Lichtverhältnissen, Medien-Nutzung, Video- und Sprachaufnahmen...

Unternehmen, die im Personalmanagement Systeme mit so genannter Künstlicher Intelligenz verwenden, handeln möglicherweise rechtswidrig - oft, ohne sich darüber im Klaren zu sein. Denn "People-Analytics"-Verfahren dürfen nicht eingesetzt werden, ohne dass Beschäftigte individuell...

Society is becoming increasingly dependent on data-rich, "Big Tech" platforms and social networks, such as Facebook and Google. But what happens to our data when these companies close or fail? Despite the high stakes involved, this topic has received only limited attention to date. In this...

We examine and compare data and privacy governance by four China-based mobile applications and their international versions: Baidu, Toutiao and its international version TopBuzz, Douyin and its international version TikTok, and WeChat. Together, these four applications represent popular Chinese...

With the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook scandal, online surveillance clearly showed its negative effects. However, few individuals were able to recover any damages from the data protection violation that occurred. The EU General Data Protection Regulation contains legal tools to coordinate the...

Das Anlegen eines Nutzerkontos ist mittlerweile bei vielen digitalen Diensten eine Grundvoraussetzung, um diese in vollem Umfang nutzen zu können. Nutzer sind daher mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, alle Anmeldedaten der von ihnen genutzten digitalen Dienste zu verwalten....

This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...

Internet users generously disclose personal information to consume supposedly "free" digital services despite severe privacy concerns-a phenomenon termed privacy paradox. Humanities have thoroughly studied this discrepancy in attitude and behavior, yet have not developed a conclusive explanation...

As technology continues to innovate at lightning speeds and technology becomes more central to everyday life, personal data must be protected. In 2017, the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union set an important precedent in the world of data protection...

Die nachfolgende Arbeit beschreibt in drei Teilen die Einführung der Datenschutz- Grundverordnung (DS-GVO). Dabei wird eine Variante zur Umsetzung der Vorgaben der am 25.05.2018 eingeführten Datenschutz-Grundverordnung ebenfalls aufgezeigt. Im ersten Teil werden die relevanten Artikel der...

Canada has much to gain by joining the Council of Europe's Modernized Convention on Personal Data Protection (Convention 108+), based on its predecessor, the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. The latter remains the only binding...

This research report offers a comparative analysis of privacy and data protection in Germany and India. It compares the two regimes on four counts. First, it examines how the right to privacy and/or its allied rights have developed in the two countries historically. In this, it explores the...

This research report offers a comparative analysis of privacy and data protection in Germany and India. It compares the two regimes on four counts. First, it examines how the right to privacy and/or its allied rights have developed in the two countries historically. In this, it explores the...

Many organisations collect data about their processes, customers, the use of their products, and many other topics in order to analyse these data in the context of data mining, big data, machine learning, and similar approaches. However, in most cases such data refer to individual people, and...

IoT technology required to build smart homes, regarding automation and control processes, represents a significant information security and personal data protection challenge. Smart homes demand a new level of security requirements as they contain relevant, vulnerable and private information....

[Purpose:] This paper aims to explain how the EU projects its own data protection regime to third states and the US in particular. Digital services have become a central element in the transatlantic economy. A substantial part of that trade is associated with the transfer of data, most of it...

Online stores can present a different price to each customer. Such algorithmic personalised pricing can lead to advanced forms of price discrimination based on the characteristics and behaviour of individual consumers. We conducted two consumer surveys among a representative sample of the Dutch...

This article offers an analytical investigation of the different actors and forces that mould definitions of "data ethics" in European policy-making. It details how data ethics public policy initiatives took shape in the context of the European General Data Protection reform, and addresses the...