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Data protection and business needs
Dr. Alexander Schumann Chief Economist DIHK
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
Barrier „IT-infrastructure“
German businesses evaluate the location factor „IT-infrastructure“ with the grade
Note 3,1 (2011: 2,5).
23%would invest more if the barrier „IT-infrastructure“
would be removed.
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
General Data Protection Regulation
• Consistent EU wide data protection standards
• Consistent EU wide application of data protection standards
• Adapting data protection rules for affiliated companies to praxis needs
• Domestic-market principle needs to be applied consistently
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
“Privacy by design”
• Avoiding unnecessary collection of data.
• Necessary data already needs to be defined when designing the data processing procedure and its technical implementation.
• Collection of data only where needed for a task performed by a company.
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
Customer profiles
• Regular customers often value if the sales personal knows their preferences.
• Building customer profiles in order to offer the customer the best product or service needs to be legally possible.
• Misuse of customer data should be prevented with a clear legal regulation.
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
Industry 4.0 / Advanced manufacturing
• Who owns the data?
• Accountability: Who is responsible, if data is spied out or an object in the network malfunctions?
• Responsibility and accountability need to be defined in advance.
• How much documentation is necessary?
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
Big data
• Enable International cross-border data flows
• “Safe harbor”
• Allowing the development of new service offerings in a competitive market
• Balanced regulation and standardisation
“Roundtable: Digital Privacy” 28th of January 2015 – Alexander Schumann
Thank you!