"Please choose how you would like to use our website". More and more digital users are confronted with this demand. They must choose between two alternatives: Either be charged for the use of the content with minimal collection of personal data or consent to the use of one's data - especially in regards to the use for personalised content and advertisement. This "Pay or Consent" business model - supported on principle by the CJEU holding it to be legal in essence - has been much discussed and criticised. However, not only its legality regarding the provisions of the GDPR are topic of conversations. Recently, the Commission of the EU has issued a statement in which they doubt the justification of "Pay or Consent" as to whether it stands in accordance with the Digital Markets Act. This criticism prompted the newest article authored by our chair.

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Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker, along with several other high-ranking experts, has been appointed as member of the Digital Advisory Board of Gematik - the highest committee in Germany which accompanies and supports the digitalisation of health insurance companies.

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The EARLY project - Evaluating, identifying and reducing determinants of mental health conditions in youth - aims to provide healthcare professionals and authorities with access to evidence-based, innovative and cost-effective interventions as well as to develop corresponding education and implementation strategies. The Chair of Prof. Dr. Buchner is examining data security and privacy aspects of collecting patient-related data in connection with mental health issues in young people.

Published by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M. and Prof. Dr. Benedikt Buchner, LL.M. (UCLA)

The leading Commentary on the GDPR and the BDSG has been published in its 4th Edition and is now accessible via beck-online.

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The Chair of Civil Law, Liability Law and Digitalization Law (Prof. Dr. Benedikt Buchner, LL.M.) is looking for assistants for the correction of final lecture exams.

Thematically, the exams mainly deal with questions and problems of the general part of civil law as well as the general law of obligations. The employment period extends from the beginning of March to mid-April. Remuneration is in the form of contracts for work.

Social resilience is a dynamic field of study that examines the ability of individuals, communities and societies to withstand and recover from various challenges and adversities, and to cope, adapt and transform social structures to better cope with future disturbances.
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The White Paper: Improving record linkage for health research in Germany has been published.

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Interview with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Buchner.
Here you can read the full article in Issue 21 - Summer 2023 on page 4 (in German).

Antitrust and data protection law go hand in hand in the meta-judgment of the European Court of Justice

The age of the "data El Dorado" is probably over. Following the epochal ruling of the European Court of Justice in the Meta case (Case C-252/21, July 4, 2023), the business model of Big Data companies will have to change fundamentally - to protect their users from abuse of their personal data and the public from abuse of the dominant positions of these companies.

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Edited by Benedikt Buchner and Thomas Petri.
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