All you need to know about data protection
Data Protection plays a major role in today’s connected society. We are prompted to share our personal data with everyone else.
The relationship status of data protection and digitalization is: It’s complicated. By now it is commonplace to display your life transparently on the internet. Social media like Twitter, Facebook or Instagram is not the only thing responsible for the fact that we lose control over our personal data.
Internet and data
We use the internet everyday and share our data - knowingly or unknowingly.
Social Media
Instgram, Twitter & Co: social media is a part of our everyday life. But we should be more carful with our personal data.
Online security
Various software solution help us to keep our data safe.
Start early
We should make sure that children learn as early as possible how to make sure their data is protected. In school they can do so by visiting special classes for cyber security.
The Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) takes care of personal rights in Germany. It is always aware of the fact that it has to adjust to the fast development in the technical sector.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNEPaGFApX4
The main topic of the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz is the right to informational self-determination, which means the possibility to decide about the prevalence of one’s own data. Therefore, control about the fulfillment of this law must be well organized. Besides the commissary for data protection and freedom of information, Andrea Voßhoff, representatives are responsible for the protection of the citizens in the different federal states.
The figures in polls speak for themselves:
Security in social networks is important or very important for
70%
of the users.