Data Protection Archive - Page 38 of 58 - External Data Protection Officer according to GDPR

New data protection agreement with the USA: Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

by Tessa Lamken | May 16, 2022 | Privacy

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

by Tessa Lamken | May 6, 2022 | Privacy

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

by Tessa Lamken | Apr 21, 2022 | Privacy

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

by Tessa Lamken | Apr 14, 2022 | Privacy

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

by Tessa Lamken | Apr 10, 2022 | Privacy

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...

Two-factor authentication hacked

by Tessa Lamken | Apr 1, 2022 | Privacy

Two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA) is used for additional security when logging in, which is otherwise usually only secured with a password and user name. In some cases, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is also used for this purpose. With some of these...