data protection

Estonian Halthcare System Benefits from Digitization

BY Risto Kaljurand, Academy of Liberalism AND Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom / December 15, 2020

The northernmost Baltic state is in the overall comparison quite successful in fighting the COVID-19-pandemics. To this success contributed among other things the central electronic health system.

Society

“Privacy Shield”: Thunderbolt from Luxembourg

BY Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger AND Liberales Institut / August 3, 2020

The transfer of data from the EU to the US violates the right to privacy as well as European data protection laws because data are not sufficiently protected against interception by US agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) or the FBI.