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Dr. Karsten Kinast

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Berthold Kerl, Dr. Karsten Kinast: After Privacy Shield's Death: What Is Still Possible?
October 28, 2020
With the July 2020 decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the „Privacy Shield“ called framework that allowed personal information to be transferred between the EUC und the US; had been invalidated with immediate effect. The only remaining justification to keep…
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Dr. Karsten Kinast - The Global Race for AI – Is it Time to Regulate Now?
May 16, 2019
Not only is there no form of AI that understands what it says, can draw conclusions from it, and can base decisions on it, but it is not even known how such a synthetic intelligence could be created. In our time, let's say in the next two and a half decades, it is not primarily a question…
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GDPR as opportunity to build trusted relationships with consumers
March 20, 2017
The new regulations of the EU GDPR apply not only to companies in the EU but every organization dealing with the personally identifiable information of EU citizens. This means most enterprises across the world will be impacted when compliance is required on May 25, 2018.
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The Impact of the new EU Data Protection Regulation on the Finance Industry
June 07, 2016
After several negotiations und multiple drafts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), its final text was adopted in April 2016. The GDPR updates the current EU Data Protection Directive according to the technological developments that have taking place during the last 20 years.…
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Rebuilding the safe harbor is necessary
October 15, 2015
A current decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) concerning the practice of transferring data from Europe into the USA brings many companies on both sides of the Atlantic to unrest: Many comments and publications spread the rumour that storing personal data on servers in the US is…
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Cloud, Data Protection & Liability
January 13, 2015
Whether public, private or hybrid clouds, whether SaaS, IaaS or PaaS: All these cloud computing approaches are differing in particular with respect to the question, whether the processing sites/parties can be determined or not, and whether the user has influence on the geographical,…
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Cloud Compliance Remains a Challenge
December 15, 2014
The cloud is reality – but still legally controversial in the details. So what do we need to consider for the future with regard to liability, especially as there are few practical alternatives for data management in the cloud and many already see the cloud as unmatched in value from an…
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EU-Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing – a Legal Comment
July 16, 2014
Cloud computing allows individuals, businesses and the public sector to store their data and carry out data processing in remote data centers, saving on average 10-20%. Yet there is scope for improvement when it comes to the trust in these services. The new EU-guidelines, developed by a…
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Strategic Information Security Investment Planning - The Legal Perspective
October 16, 2013
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