Dominic N. Staiger
This article highlights the key challenges of data protection in the context of the Internet of Things and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In particular the processing information to which data subjects have a right are addressed and the actors that play a key role in the IoT value chain are introduced. As a potential solution the article advocates for technological measures to resolve the underlying data protection issues in form of industry standards.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Switzerland
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Field of law: Data Protection
Stephan C. Brunner
Network-compatible everyday tools are expatiating and thus rising the question of how cybersecurity can be guaranteed with those tools. One instrument is state regulation. In the article, the current legal framework will be analyzed. A need for action and innovation will be located especially for international standards and for the area of product safety and liability law. (ah)
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Category: Articles
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Region: Switzerland
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Field of law: Cybercrime, Data Protection
Coran Darling
Have the privacy rights of vehicle occupants been appropriately considered when developing the intelligent transport technology and regulations implementing eCall?
As of April 2018, eCall systems have become mandatory in most passenger vehicles manufactured and sold in Europe. Whilst this comes with a number of practical advantages, a number of privacy concerns have been raised regarding the technology. This article seeks to investigate some of the issues highlighted in order to address whether they pose a risk as significant as they are perceived to pose.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Scotland
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Field of law: Electric Mobility, Data Protection
Rolf H. Weber
In the Internet of Things, traditional contractural principles can be reasonably applied in general. Practical difficulties are less due to the principally operational «legal institutes» but rather to the frequently given complexity of contractual relationships in a multi party network. (ah)
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Category: Articles
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Region: Switzerland
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Field of law: Contract Law, Data Protection
Christiane Wendehorst
In the digital age, the importance of ownership is on the decline and that of access rights and similar concepts is steadily on the rise. Nevertheless, connected devices, such as «smart» cars or machines, continue to be distributed on the basis of sales contracts. The buyer of a connected device only gains ownership of the tangible substance, though, which is largely worthless without further product components such as embedded software, ancillay software, software updates and a variety of digital services. The author analyzes whether connectedness of devices leads to an erosion of the concept of ownership.
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Category: Articles
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Region: Austria
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Field of law: Property Law, IP Law