Data is the basis for successful and efficient company management and for securing the future. The multiple opportunities that are available to companies in particular in the areas of Industry 4.0, marketing and retargeting, smart home, e-health, big data, predictive maintenance, Internet of Things, fraud prevention, and scoring involve many details pertaining to data protection law.
This applies to international data transfers and their permissibility in accordance with the Schrems decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union on safe harbor, as well as employee data protection and employee monitoring. The risk of a fine of up to EUR 20 million or up to 4% of annual revenue (starting when the General Data Protection Regulation enters into force in the summer of 2018) or of a warning increases along with the amount of personal data used.
Closely meshed data protection compliance is necessary at the latest when data is to be used by various group companies and also outside the EU, if US Cloud providers or other contract data processing agents are used, in order not to become the focus of attention of data protection supervisory authorities and consumer protection associations.
Heuking bündelt eine langjährige Erfahrung mit Kenntnissen über die aktuellsten technischen Entwicklungen und Branchen Know-how. Zudem arbeiten bei uns die Spezialisten des Datenschutzrechts Hand in Hand mit den Experten anderer Praxisgruppen, etwa des Arbeits- und Kartellrechts. Nur so ist es möglich, komplexen Fragen etwa des Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzes, der datenschutzrechtlichen Risiken bei großen Outsourcing Projekten, und branchenspezifischen Datenschutzrisiken mit maßgeschneiderten Lösungen zu begegnen.
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