Research area: Law and Ethics

Intrusion into personal devices by law enforcement authorities (SEpES)

The interdisciplinary research project examines aspects of societal acceptance and the legal framework of intrusion into private devices by law enforcement authorities from the perspective of law, computer science and social…

Data exchange in the EU: New rules in the Data Governance Act (Part 2/2)

The infrastructuralisation process is to be driven forward by the Data Governance Act. The DGA is intended as a control tool to regulate data exchange processes, but there are doubts about its control potential.

Data exchange in the EU: Infrastructure (Part 1/2)

Geopolitical considerations make digital sovereignty of the European area necessary. An important step towards this is European data sovereignty through the creation of federated data spaces.

A Regulatory Clustering of Privacy Laws

The working paper constitutes a central component of the underlying project’s approach of allowing interdisciplinary comparison of the impact of different regulatory systems on individual behavior.

Personenbezogene Daten und Datenschutz

“The law alone cannot explain how data protection actually works in different countries.”

In this interview, Professor Kai von Lewinski reveals exciting results from the “Vectors of Data Disclosure” project, a comparative study on the use of personal data.