Lecture by Prof. Wendt to those responsible in the faculties and structural units as well as interested employees
In a well-attended event in lecture hall 2 of the Peter-Dierich-Haus on 20.06.2018, the university's data protection officer, Prof. Dr. Uwe Wendt, provided information on the new data protection regulations and the consequences for the university's work.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25.05.18. This gives the member states of the European Union a uniform data protection law. What does this mean for Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences? In his lecture, the data protection officer Prof. Wendt explained the basics of data protection from the beginnings of the oath of Hippocrates (400 BC) to the census ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1983 and the European General Data Protection Regulation.
After the historical outline, the principles for the processing of personal data, such as lawfulness, fairness, transparency, purpose limitation, data minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, integrity and confidentiality were addressed.
In addition to the rights of data subjects, the obligations of the operators of data processing procedures were presented. The differences to the previous data protection under the SächDSG were also highlighted. Prof. Wendt also outlined the basic requirements for information security as a prerequisite for data protection.
This was followed by a lively discussion on various applications and designs of the new data protection law.
Due to the lively interest, Prof. Wendt intends to repeat the lecture at the beginning of the winter semester in October in Görlitz.