Cybersecurity and data protection: Challenges for companies
What should be done when a cyber attack occurs? What can cybersecurity look like in the company? Read more now!
Rights of the data subject under the GDPR: An overview
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has resulted in significant changes in the area of data subjects’ rights. What do companies have to consider?
New EDPB guidelines on the right of access: How companies can provide information in a legally compliant manner
In this article, we present these guidelines and provide companies with valuable practical advice on how to proceed with a request for information.
Designing and structuring an efficient DPMS
Implementing data security and data protection appropriately within your company is a complex task. Given the large number of data processing operations that are carried out every day at different points and the equally large number of legal rules that have to be observed, it is easy to lose track of exactly what is going […]
Transmission of health data: pitfalls in health apps & fitness trackers
Digitisation is permeating all areas of life. Also, especially within the health care sector, the eagerness to spur the digital transformation is immense – equally from state and private sides. Thus, the market is already well-filled with a variety of fitness trackers and health apps today. Even health insurances promote the use of their own […]
Handling enquiries from data subjects – what is really relevant?
The proper handling of enquiries from data subjects benefits any business. A well-versed approach can not only ensure compliance, but also optimise and accelerate the entire business process. For this reason, responding to data subject requests should be a firm component of a good data protection management system in the organisation. But how does one […]
The biggest GDPR myths: the consent – what is right and what is wrong?
GDPR myth busters – Part 1 The GDPR is effective since 25 May 2018. Before and after, there was a lot going on. Hardly any other topic has been talked about and published so much. Unfortunately, the numerous publications with the allegedly “best” references and recommendations have not resulted in an understanding amongst the “data […]
Digitalisation in healthcare and data protection – two things, that get along?
(Including references to German legislation in particular, but not exclusively) German State Minister for Digitisation Dorothee Bär gave an interview to the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag on 23 December 2018, in which she explained that digitisation in the healthcare sector could be achieved, among other things, by easing data protection regulations. “In Germany we […]
Artificial Intelligence and Data Privacy – application scenarios
The possible ranges of applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are quite divers. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is often quoted a showstopper – with the following article, we want to demonstrate, that is not the case. To this end, we are taking up very specific fields of application for Artificial Intelligence, which are already […]
AI & GDPR: Minimise compliance costs with anonymisation and pseudonymisation!
True to the motto “the future is now!”, artificial intelligence is regarded as the key technology of the future but has long since been established in the present all over the world. More and more companies are discovering the advantages of machine learning and deep learning as well as Big Data for themselves. Processes can […]