Workshop “Law and technology: data protection in discourse”

From the foreword:

After ten years, the workshop “Law and Technology – Data Protection in Discourse” is a continuous and integral part of the annual conference of the German Informatics Society. After switching to the online format twice due to the pandemic, it can now take place in person again for the second time. Despite the pleasing liveliness of the online meetings, it was a great pleasure for us to host a very well-attended and intensively discussed workshop at the annual conference last year.

In terms of content, the focus remains as usual: We offer a forum for contributions from computer scientists, lawyers and representatives of related disciplines who are working on issues of technology-based data protection. As in previous years, topics will be addressed that offer application-oriented potential for interdisciplinary discourse and cooperation and that demonstrate the possibilities of how data protection can be specified and implemented through technology.

The contributions, which we were able to select from the large number of high-quality submissions in a peer-reviewed process with the support of our reviewers, show the thematic and disciplinary range of topics currently being discussed in the field of tension between law and technology. The submissions are organized into the following three subject areas:

1. governance and enforcement of data protection law using the example of the current
fining practice of the supervisory authorities

2. transparency issues at the interface between legal information obligations and concrete technical implementation

3. data protection and artificial intelligence using the example of the planned “AI living labs”