GDPR – what’s beyond?
New rights for consumers, new obligations for businesses: European data protection law will receive a massive update, as the EU’s general data protection regulation will enter into force on 25 May 2018. This makes it easier for users to find out what Facebook, Google & Co. store. Will GDPR really make data traffic more transparent? Or nothing new after all? In this context, our researchers also shed light on other topics such as algorithm ethics, artificial intelligence, microtargeting or the CLOUD Act. Browse through this dossier on the GDPR and get a better idea of what's beyond!
Translating law into code – why computer scientists and lawyers must join forces
GDPR has shown that law and computer science have more in common than one might initially assume. It is therefore even more important to find a common language for the…
Data protection law in upheaval?
Less than two months had passed since the General Data Protection Regulation entered into force on 25 May 2018, and yet its impact could already be seen everywhere. In addition…
A constitution for social media?
To comply with the impending GDPR rules, social media platforms are asking users to accept their new privacy policies. In light of the recent scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica,…
What’s the GDPR?
New rights for consumers, new obligations for businesses: European data protection law will receive a massive update. In this article, five HIIG researchers answered questions on the General Data Protection…
Data protection and designing technology
In his dissertation Jörg Pohle uncovers the history of ideas and the historical construction of the data protection problem and data protection as an abstract solution – including the architecture…
Trust in me, just in me! Trusted Third Parties in data protection law
High time for a reform of European data protection legislation: The last corresponding directive dates from 1995 and is no longer up to the technical developments of Big Data, Smart…
The principle of purpose limitation in data protection laws
In his dissertation, Maximilian von Grafenstein examines the principle of purpose limitation in data protection law, which not only protects the autonomy of those affected, but also provides data processing companies…
The ethics of big data, Facebook & Cambridge Analytica
Facebook is under fire after the social media giant admitted it didn’t prevent data from as many as 50 million users getting to political data firm Cambridge Analytica, which it…
Voter or consumer – double standards?
The current debate over Facebook and Cambridge Analytica also concerns the fundamental status of citizens as essential components of public opinion-forming: With their data collected, analysed and sold by social networks,…
Deconstructing a verbal sparring match
On 14 April 2016, the plenary session of the European Parliament completed the legislative process for the General Data Protection Regulation. As rapporteur of the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht…
Datafication and Consumer Trust
We’re already living in a highly data driven society. Algorithms control the content flow displayed to us through search engines, for the news we read on Facebook and Twitter, the…
Data protection for the digital age: Interview with Jan Philipp Albrecht
On 14 April 2016, the plenary session of the European Parliament completed the legislative process for the General Data Protection Regulation. As rapporteur of the European Parliament, Jan Philipp Albrecht…
Why privacy ≠ data protection (and how they overlap)
Much has been written about privacy and data protection, and the body of literature is constantly growing. Yet in many contemporary debates on, for example, surveillance, information monopolies and tracking…
If the boss controls the browser history – take care of your data!
On 12th February 2016 the higher labour court Berlin-Brandenburg issued a press release about a decision concerning the inspection of an employee’s browser history by his employer to check if his computers…
The making of the EU’s Data Protection Regulation
As anyone who deals with draft bills knows, those involved need to have a lot of staying power. The proposed European Data Protection Directive is a case in point. Ever…