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The right to data portability is hardly known and difficult to implement. A bidt project is investigating how users can gain more control over their own data.

In this project, we did not set out with the intention of coming up with a definition of AI or intelligence. Instead, we followed a bottom-up approach: We extracted the emerging perspective on ‘intelligence’ in a research…

The lawyer Eric Hilgendorf examines the extent to which technical developments need to be re-regulated in the course of the digital transformation. Often, the current rules would suffice.

Imagine that your elderly relative lives at home with her assistive care robot, which is tasked to help her with day-to-day activities. Then one day you receive a call to say that your relative has been found unconscious on the floor,…

Users have the right to retrieve their data stored with online services and have it transferred to other services, for example when changing providers. Initial studies from the bidt project “Motivation and Implementation…

The bidt project “Digital Transformation Strategies of German Federal States” provides a comparison of different approaches to digital policy. An interview with Thomas Hess and Katharina Brunner on the project study.

On the trail of the virus: How are Corona apps used throughout the world, what technical difficulties are encountered during their implementation and in which ways are they currently being refined. This is a comparison of Corona…

Codes of ethics in the context of software development lack practical applicability, as they cannot solve emerging conflicts of values. Our approach “Ethical Deliberation for Agile Software Processes” (EDAP) takes up ethical…

More mobile working days and new digital tools: What bidt takes away from the experience gained during the Corona pandemic.

Andreas Boes researches the effects of digitalisation on the individual and on social coexistence.