englischCyber espionage is established state practice. Even 10 years after Edward Snowden, it raises questions of public international law, which this work examines. While there is hardly any evidence of limiting norms in the law of international relations, cyber espionage affects human rights [...]

englischBig Data applications increasingly process sensitive health data. This trend puts the health data protection law in Germany and the EU to the test. Roman Schildbach comprehensively examines whether the current legal framework can balance the great opportunities of Big Data for health with [...]

englischIn the early days of data protection supervision, supervision of processing in the public and non-public sectors was predominantly carried out by different authorities in the states. Today, this division of supervision (the so called “Trennungsmodell”) is only found in Bavaria. Both the [...]

englischIn particular, information requirements and processing provisions raise the question of whether they have a competition law component. The author answers these questions by considering the meaning and purpose of data protection over time. In doing so, he focuses on the provisions of the GDPR [...]

englischThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was intended to harmonize Union data protection law in a far-reaching way. Contrary to this goal more opening clauses were included. This paper examines the use of selected opening clauses of the GDPR, taking the Federal Data Protection Act [...]