No chat control after all?
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson's draft on chat control and other measures in the digital space has met with criticism from various sectors. Johansson, however, is not letting her guard down, saying that the approval of the...
Works council as data protection law controller?
Wherever personal data is processed in a company, the person responsible must comply with data protection regulations. Violations of data protection regulations can result in heavy fines. As a rule, the...
Confluence security vulnerability
A zero-day security vulnerability has become known in the commercial wiki software from the Australian company Atlassian. Active exploitation is said to have already occurred. Discovery of the vulnerability The current vulnerability had already been discovered by...
Draft of the EU Commission: More than just chat control
The EU Commission has presented a new draft regulation. This is to serve the fight against sexual abuse of children. It was announced that chat control would be introduced. However, the draft also deals with topics such as age control and...
Census 2022 compliant with data protection?
On May 15, 2022, the regular census is launched. Not only because of the amount of data to be collected, but also because of certain service providers used in the online questionnaire, data protection concerns are surfacing. Find out everything you need to know about this...
New data protection agreement with the USA: Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
On March 25, 2022, the publication of a new data protection agreement between the EU and the USA took place. This is already the third agreement that concerns transatlantic data transfers. What exactly was recorded and how this currently affects the practice...
Data protection and employment law - deletion and data subject rights management according to DSGVO
In December 2021, the Neuruppin Labor Court ordered an employer to pay damages in the amount of €1,000 to a former employee under Article 82 of the GDPR. The reason for this was that the former employee, after termination of...
2021 - The year of zero-day vulnerabilities
The security researchers of Google's "Project Zero" have completed their statistics on actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. The conclusion: In 2021, there was a massive increase in known zero days. This would not only be due to the increase in attacks,...
Password and data security
It is estimated that an average Internet user has over 70 accounts that can only be accessed via individual access data. Secure passwords need to be defined both at work and at home. Many people find this difficult, which...
Federal Data Protection Commissioner: Caution with health data
Federal Data Protection Commissioner Ulrich Kelber has now presented his activity report for 2021. In particular, he warned in this against the too easy handling of health data by the developments of the Corona pandemic. Legal regulation for the processing of...
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