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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Appointing a group data protection officer (EU): What are the benefits?

The entry into force of the GDPR on 25 May 2018 also brought considerable changes to the tasks of a “group data protection officer”, which did not previously exist in a comparable form. For the first time, the GDPR explicitly states that a group of undertakings may appoint a single data protection officer (DPO). This […]

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