Digitaler Nachlass und Soziale Netzwerke – Die vertrags- und datenschutzrechtliche Perspektive (Social Media and Digital Inheritance – The Contract and Data Protection Law Dimension)

Against the backdrop of the Federal Court of Justice's seminal ruling on the inheritability of a Facebook user account, this study examines whether and to what extent generalizable parameters can be developed for handling the digital estate and in which constellations the applicable law requires case-specific differentiation. For the analysis of a user’s digital assets the study will examine in particular the data protection law of the GDPR as well as the contractual leeway of the social media service providers under German T&C law.

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Importance of Personal Data Protection Law for Commercial Air Transport

Transactions on Aerospace Research ◽

10.2478/tar-2017-0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (1) ◽

pp. 35-44

Author(s):

Dawid Zadura

Keyword(s):

Data Protection ◽

Public Information ◽

Personal Data ◽

Air Transport ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

Aviation Industry ◽

Personal Data Protection ◽

It Systems ◽

Data Protection Law ◽

The Law

Abstract In the review below the author presents a general overview of the selected contemporary legal issues related to the present growth of the aviation industry and the development of aviation technologies. The review is focused on the questions at the intersection of aviation law and personal data protection law. Massive processing of passenger data (Passenger Name Record, PNR) in IT systems is a daily activity for the contemporary aviation industry. Simultaneously, since the mid- 1990s we can observe the rapid growth of personal data protection law as a very new branch of the law. The importance of this new branch of the law for the aviation industry is however still questionable and unclear. This article includes the summary of the author’s own research conducted between 2011 and 2017, in particular his audits in LOT Polish Airlines (June 2011-April 2013) and Lublin Airport (July - September 2013) and the author’s analyses of public information shared by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), International Air Transport Association (IATA), Association of European Airlines (AEA), Civil Aviation Authority (ULC) and (GIODO). The purpose of the author’s research was to determine the applicability of the implementation of technical and organizational measures established by personal data protection law in aviation industry entities.

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