This paper examines how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be used to address procedural problems faced by platform workers, including opaque rating systems, arbitrary account suspension and nonpayment, and uncommunicative clients and platform operators. GDPR provides workers with...

The lockdown and other restrictive measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic recession have had a strong impact on labour markets worldwide. As far as the European Union (EU) is concerned, the accelerated fall in total employment was the 'sharpest decline ever...

This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated their social security frameworks in relation to short-term thirdcountry national (TCN) migrant workers. It presents the result of an extensive mapping exercise carried out in 24 EU Member States, as...

Recent advances in biology and genetics have raised the value of life samples, health records and genetically modified micro-organisms, and, as Demsetz (1967) predicts, rising values increase the demand for well-defined exclusive ownership rights. But greater expected value of resources also...

The EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is proposing a far-reaching "European Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services" (EUCS) to be established in the European Union (EU). According to the latest draft of August 2023, leaked by Politico in September 2023, the...

More than other EU 'Unions', the proposed Health Union requires proper definition because the EU's competences are limited in this domain.

Einer langwierigen Diskussion um die Digitalisierung und Modernisierung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems folgt 2021 die Verpflichtung der gesetzlichen Krankenkassen zur Einführung der elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA). Diese Regelung stößt bei Deutschlands oberster Datenschutzbehörde (BfDI)...

Die Forschungsdatenzentren der Statistischen Ämter des Bundes und der Länder führen für ausgewählte Statistiken die Cell-Key-Methode als neues Verfahren zur Ergebnisgeheimhaltung ein. Dieses Verfahren schützt die Befragten vor der Reidentifikation, indem es durch die Überlagerung der...