Ubiquitous computing technologies will have a wide impact on our daily lives in the future. Currently, most debates about social implications of these technologies concentrate on different aspects of privacy and data security. However, the authors of this paper argue that there is more to...

Information Security Management and Knowledge Management show a couple of intriguing similarities. This paper identifies some of these similarities and highlights abstract problems arising from them in both areas. Those analogies motivate to look for possibilities to transfer solutions from one...

This paper discusses the general characteristics of the mobile instant messaging market from a competition point of view. Positive feedback and indirect network effects, which strongly influence the mobile instant messaging market, tend to facilitate the development of one quasi-monopoly. Even...

The European Directive on common rules for the internal market in electricity (2009/72/EC) requires all member states to 'ensure the implementation of intelligent metering systems' in order to foster a more active involvement of customers in the electricity market. Such intelligent metering...

Ubiquitous Computing technologies will have a wide impact on our daily lives in the future. Currently, most debates about social implications of these technologies concentrate on different aspects of privacy and data security. However, the authors of this paper argue that there is more to...

In this article, we examine the concept of non-personal data from a law and computer science perspective. The delineation between personal data and non-personal data is of paramount importance to determine the GDPR’s scope of application. This exercise is, however, fraught with difficulty,...