The 13tha-i3/BSI Symposium on the subject of "Protection of personality in times of IT-(in)-security" took place at the Centre for IT-Security in Bochum on the 20thand 21stMarch. Both Prof. Dr. Georg Borges and Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge took part in this event.
The Symposium covered, amongst other things, current security loopholes as well as security issues with the new special electronic account for lawyers (beA) and the "chip disaster".
Prof. Dr. Georg Borges used his lecture to talk about the discussion begun by the former Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, on the creation of a law for algorithms. He also considered application errors, the legal concerns raised by the evaluation of humans by machines and how errors in such evaluation should be dealt with. He made the point that the main challenge lies in the distinction between (inadmissible) discrimination and (admissible) unequal treatment.
In his lecture, Prof. Sorge addressed technical security measures in light of the Basic Data Protection Regulation. He identified Art. 32 as being the central provision and paid particular attention to the catalogue of measures set out in paragraph 1. Prof. Sorge noted that the main challenge lies in the specification of the goals and measures set out in Art. 32 of the Basic Data Protection Regulation. In conclusion, he demonstrated a potential conflict between the achievement of IT-Security and data protection.
You can find the presentation slides here:
