Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) banned the President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Arne Schönbohm, from conducting official business. Schönbohm has been Head of the Bonn-based agency responsible for IT security since 2016 but is not a so-called political official who could be put into temporary retirement at any time.The reasons […]
The Federal Office of Justice fined the provider Telegram twice. Both fines were imposed for non-compliance with the requirements of the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG): The Dubai-based company is supposed to pay €4.25 million for the lack of reporting channels for illegal content, and another €750,000 due to the lack of a legal representative with […]
“All options are being examined,” the spokesman for German Home Secretary Nancy Faeser (SPD) confirmed again this late Sunday evening: Arne Schönbohm, head of the largest cybersecurity agency in Europe, must fear being recalled due to a ZDF report. He is accused of lacking distance from Russian intelligence circles.The matter is also observed with interest […]
“An important step forward for better data protection for citizens and more legal certainty for businesses – on both sides of the Atlantic,” rejoices Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demonstratively. She had politically agreed on the new regulation with US President Joe Biden more than half a year ago. Since then, the White House […]
Yesterday, the White House Office of Science and Technology proposed an Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. With the proposal, which is not formally legally binding, the White House aims to protect parents, patients, and employees, among others, from harm caused by the increasing use of automation in education, healthcare, and the workplace. The Biden administration’s […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose power of words colleagues sometimes compare to a talking file folder, has done it again: “That’s a double whammy!” he said yesterday when presenting the government’s plans to loosen 200 billion euros for the gas price brake by spring 2024 via a slightly shadowed budget.That’s how political Berlin knows him: he’d […]
The basic problem is exactly the same as it was six months ago when US President Joe Biden and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen appeared before the press together: Companies face heavy fines and a ban on transferring personal data from the EU to the US without a legal basis. So far, nothing […]
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has filed a request with the European Court of Justice to annul two articles of the Europol Regulation. The regulation was adopted by the EU institutions earlier this year.The reason for this measure is no small matter: “The contested provisions of the amended Europol Regulation retroactively legalise processing operations […]
What seems indisputable about power plants and Internet nodes is that they are critical infrastructures. But how critical are millions of Internet-capable small and micro devices when everything is interconnected?This very question became acute in 2016, when hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected devices were integrated into the Mirai botnet without the knowledge of their owners […]