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A. Introduction
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I. Problem: Conflict between innovation and risk protection
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1. Innovation as an economic driver for public welfare
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2. Protection against the risks of innovation
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3. Uncertainty about the meaning and extent of the principle of purpose limitation
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4. Practical examples referring to two typical scenarios
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a) Coming from a practical observation: Startups and non-linear innovation processes
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b) First scenario: Purpose specification by the controller concerning the use of data of its users
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aa) The unpredictable outcome of entrepreneurial processes
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bb) Excursus: In which circumstances do data controllers actually need “old” data?
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c) Second scenario: The limitation of the later use of data collected by third parties
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aa) No foreseeable negative impact on individuals
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bb) Negative impact foreseeable on the individuals
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5. Interim conclusion: Uncertainty about the concept of protection and its legal effects
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II. Research questions and approach
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1. Legal research about innovation
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2. The regulator’s perspective
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3. Possible pitfalls taking the effects of regulation instruments into account
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III. Course of examination
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B. Conceptual definitions as a link for regulation
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I. Innovation and entrepreneurship
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1. Process of innovative entrepreneurship
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a) Key Elements for the entrepreneurial process
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b) Business Opportunities: Discovery and creation
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c) Strategic management: Causation and effectuation
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d) Entrepreneurial contexts: The Law as one influencing factor in innovation processes amongst others
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2. Regulation of innovative entrepreneurship
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a) Do laws simply shift societal costs either protecting against or being open to innovation?
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b) Principles between openness toward innovation and legal uncertainty
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aa) Legal (un)certainty as a factor that mediates the regulatory burden
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bb) Conditioning further legal certainty as a promoting factor for entrepreneurial activity
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c) Interim conclusion with respect to the principle of purpose limitation
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II. Data protection as a risk regulation
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1. Risk terminology oscillating between “prevention” and “precaution”
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2. Sociological approaches defining “dangers” and “risks”
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3. German legal perspectives: Different protection instruments for different types of threat
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a) Protection pursuant to the degree of probability
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b) Protection pursuant to the available knowledge in linear-causal and non-linear environments
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c) Interim conclusion: Fundamental rights determining the appropriateness of protection
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4. Searching for a scale in order to determine the potential impact of data protection risks
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III. Theories about the value of privacy and data protection
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1. The individual’s autonomy and the private/public dichotomy
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2. Criticism: From factual to conceptual changes
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3. Nissenbaum’s framework of “contextual integrity”
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4. Clarifying the relationship between “context” and “purpose”
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5. Values as a normative scale in order to determine the “contexts” and “purposes”
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C. The function of the principle of purpose limitation in light of Article 8 ECFR and further fundamental rights
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I. Constitutional framework
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1. Interplay and effects of fundamental rights regimes
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a) The interplay between European Convention for Human Rights, European Charter of Fundamental Rights and German Basic Rights
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b) The effects of fundamental rights on the private sector
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aa) Third-party effect, protection and defensive function
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(1) European Convention on Human Rights
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(a) Positive obligations with respect to Article 8 ECHR
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(b) Right to respect for private life under Article 8 ECHR
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(2) European Charter of Fundamental Rights
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(a) Market freedoms and fundamental rights
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(b) The right to data protection under Article 8 ECFR and/or the right to private life under Article 7 ECFR
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(3) German Basic Rights
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(a) Protection function of the right to informational self-determination
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(b) Priority of contractual agreements and the imbalance of powers
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(c) Balancing the colliding constitutional positions
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bb) Balance between defensive and protection function
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(1) The 3-Step-Test: Assessing the defensive and protection function
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(2) A first review: decomposing the object and concept of protection
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(a) Which instruments actually protect which object of protection?
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(b) Example: “Commercialized” consent threatening the object of protection including…
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(c) … individuality?
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(d) … solidarity?
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(e) … democracy?
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cc) Equal or equivalent level of protection compared to state data processing?
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c) Interim conclusion: Interdisciplinary research on the precise object and concept of protection
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2. The object and concept of protection of the German right to informational self-determination
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a) Genesis and interplay with co-related basic rights
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b) Autonomous substantial guarantee
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c) Right to control disclosure and usage of personal data as protection instrument?
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d) Infringement by ‘insight into personality’ and ‘particularity of state interest’
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e) Purpose specification as the essential link for legal evaluation
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aa) In the public sector: Interplay between the three principles clarity of law, proportionality, and purpose limitation
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(1) Principles of clarity of law and purpose limitation referring to the moment when data is collected
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(2) The proportionality test also takes the use of data at a later stage into account
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bb) In the private sector: The contract as an essential link for legal evaluation
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f) Interim conclusion: Conceptual link between ‘privacy’ and ‘data processing’
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3. Different approach of Article 7 and 8 ECFR with respect to Article 8 ECHR
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a) Genesis and interplay of both rights
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b) Concept of Article 8 ECHR: Purpose specification as a mechanism for determining the scope of application (i.e. the individual’s ‘reasonable expectation’)
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aa) Substantial guarantee of “private life”: Trust in confidentiality and unbiased behavior
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bb) Criteria established for certain cases: Context of collection, nature of data, way of usage, and results obtained
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cc) Particular reference to the individual’s “reasonable expectations”
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(1) ‘Intrusion into privacy’
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(2) Public situations: ‘Systematic or permanent storage’ vs. ‘passer-by situations’
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(3) ‘Data relating to private or public matters’, ‘limited use’ and/or ‘made available to the general public’
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(4) ‘Unexpected use’ pursuant to the purpose perceptible by the individual concerned
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dd) Consent: Are individuals given a choice to avoid the processing altogether?
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ee) Conclusion: Assessment of ‘reasonable expectations’ on a case-by-case basis
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c) Concept of Articles 7 and 8 ECFR: Ambiguous interplay of scopes going beyond Article 8 ECHR
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aa) Comparing the decisions of the European Court of Justice with the principles developed by the European Court of Human Rights
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(1) General definition of the term ‘personal data’ under Article 7 and 8 ECFR instead of case-by-case approach
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(2) Differences between private life and data protection under Articles 7 and 8 ECFR
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(a) Protection against first publication and profiles based on public data
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(b) Protection against collection, storage, and subsequent risk of abuse
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(3) Reference to further fundamental rights under Article 7 and/or 8 ECFR
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(a) Which right is used to discuss other fundamental rights?
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(b) The answer depends on the type of threat posed
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(4) Protection in (semi)-public spheres irrespective of ‘reasonable expectations’?
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(5) Going beyond the requirement of consent provided for under Article 8 ECHR
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bb) Interim conclusion: Article 8 ECFR as a regulation instrument?
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(1) Location of protection instruments under Article 8 ECFR
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(2) Protection going beyond Article 8 ECHR
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(3) Remaining uncertainty about the interplay between Article 7 and 8 ECFR
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cc) Referring to substantial guarantees as method of interpreting fundamental rights in order to avoid a scope of protection that is too broad and/or too vague
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(1) The reason for why the scope is too vague: Difference between data and information
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(2) The reason for why the scope is too broad: Increasing digitization in society
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(3) Advantages and challenges: ‘Personal data’ as legal link for a subjective right
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(4) Possible consequence: A legal scale provided for by all fundamental rights which determine the regulation instruments under Art. 8 ECFR
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II. The requirement of purpose specification and its legal scale
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1. Main problem: Precision of purpose specification
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a) ECtHR and ECJ: Almost no criteria
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b) Requirements provided for by European secondary law
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aa) Central role of purpose specification within the legal system
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(1) Scope of protection: ‘Personal data’
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(a) ‘All the means reasonably likely to be used’
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(b) Example: IP addresses as ‘personal data’?
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(c) The case of “Breyer vs. Germany”
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(2) Liability for ‘data processing’: ‘Controller’ and ‘processor’
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(3) Further legal provisions referring to the purpose
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bb) Criteria discussed for purpose specification
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(1) Preliminary note: Clarifying conceptual (mis)understandings
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(2) Legal opinion on the function of the specification of a purpose
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(3) Legal opinion on the function of ‘making a specified purpose explicit’
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(4) Legal opinion on the reconstruction of a purpose and its legitimacy
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cc) Purposes of processing specified when consent is given
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dd) Purposes of data processing authorized by legal provisions
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(1) ePrivacy Directive
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(2) Data Protection Directive and General Data Protection Regulation
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(a) Preliminary note: Clarifying conceptual (mis)understandings
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(b) Legal opinion on ‘performance of a contract’
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(c) Legal opinion on ‘legal obligation’, ‘vital interests’, and ‘public task’
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(d) Legal opinion on ‘legitimate interests’
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c) Transposition of the requirement of purpose specification into German law
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aa) Purposes of processing authorized by the Telecommunication Law
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bb) Purposes of processing authorized by the Telemedia Law
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cc) Purposes of processing authorized by the Federal Data Protection Law
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(1) Three basic legitimate grounds
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(2) ‘Performance of a contract’, Article 28 sect. 1 sent. 1 no. 1 BDSG
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(3) ‘Justified interests of the controller’, Art. 28 sect. 1 sent. 1 no. 2 BDSG
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(4) ‘Generally accessible data’, Art. 28 sect. 1 sent. 1 no. 3 BDSG
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(5) Privileges and restrictions pursuant to the purpose
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dd) Purposes of processing specified when consent is given
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(1) Not a waiver but execution of right to informational self-determination
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(2) Requirements for consent and consequences of its failure
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(3) Discussion on the degree of precision of a specified purpose
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ee) Comparison with principles developed by the German Constitutional Court
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(1) Public sector: Purpose specification as a result of the principle of clarity of law
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(a) Function of purpose specification (basic conditions)
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(b) Examples for specific purposes: Certain areas of life or explicitly listed crimes
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(c) Examples for unspecific purposes: Abstract dangers or unknown purposes
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(d) Liberalization of the strict requirement by referring to the object of protection
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(2) Private sector: ‘Self-control of legitimacy’
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2. Criticism: Stricter effects on the private than the public sector
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a) Difference in precision of purposes specified by legislator and data controllers
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aa) Data processing for undisputed ‘marketing purposes’ authorized by law
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bb) Disputed ‘marketing purposes’ specified by data controllers
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cc) Further examples for different scales applied in order to specify the purpose
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dd) Can the context help interpret a specified purpose?
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ee) A different scale for ‘purpose specification’ pursuant to the German concept of protection
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ff) Interim conclusion: Do regulation instruments dictate the scale for ‘purpose specification’?
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b) Further ambiguities and possible reasons behind the same
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aa) Common understanding about the function of ‘purpose specification’
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bb) Ambiguous understanding regarding the functions of ‘making specified purpose explicit’
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cc) Arguable focus on data collection for legal evaluation in the private sector
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dd) Arguable legal consequences surrounding the validity of the consent
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c) The lack of a legal scale for ‘purpose specification’ in the private sector
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aa) No legal system providing for ‘objectives’ of data processing in the private sector
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bb) Differentiating between the terms ‘purpose’, ‘means’ and ‘interest’
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(1) ‘Interests’ protected by the controller’s fundamental rights
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(2) Is the ‘purpose’ determined by the individual’s fundamental rights?
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bb) Inclusion or exclusion of future ‘purposes’ and ‘interests’
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(1) Present interests vs. future interests
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(2) Purpose specification pursuant to the type of threat?
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d) Summary of conceptual ambiguities
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3. Solution approach: Purpose specification as a risk-discovery process
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a) Regulative aim: Data protection for the individual’s autonomy
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aa) Intermediate function of data protection
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(1) Different functions of rights (opacity and transparency)
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(2) Disconnecting the exclusive link between data protection to privacy
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(3) Data protection for all rights to privacy, freedom, and equality
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bb) Purpose specification as a risk regulation instrument
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(1) ‘A risk to a right’: Quantitative vs. qualitative evaluation?
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(a) Challenges of bridging risks to rights
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(b) Example: German White Paper on DPIA
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(c) Criticism: Incoherence of current risk criteria
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(2) Purpose specification discovering risks posed to all fundamental rights
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(a) Pooling different actions together in order to create meaning
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(b) Separating unspecific from specific risks (first reason why data protection is indispensable)
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(c) Central function with respect to all fundamental rights (second reason why data protection is indispensable of data protection)
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(3) Function of making specified purposes explicit
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cc) Interim conclusion: Refining the concept of protection
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(1) Tying into the Courts’ decisions and European legislation
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(2) Advantages compared to existing (unclear) concepts of protection
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(a) Effectiveness and efficiency of protection instruments
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(b) Appropriate concept for innovation processes
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(c) Excursus: Objective vs. subjective risks
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b) Fundamental rights which determine purpose requirements
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aa) Right to privacy (aka ‘being left alone’)
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(1) Unfolding specific guarantees of privacy
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(a) At home: Protection of ‘haven of retreat’
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(b) Using communications: Protection against ‘filtering opinions’
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(c) “Privacy in (semi)-public spheres”: Protection against the risks of later usage of data
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(2) Necessity requirement, irrespective of inconvenience
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(3) ‘Framing’ privacy expectations
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(a) Research on the individual’s decision making process (consent)
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(b) First example: The legislature’s considerations on the use of ‘cookies’
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(c) Second example: Considerations surrounding ‘unsolicited communications’
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bb) Right to self-determination in public
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(1) Clarification of substantial guarantees
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(2) First publication: Strict requirements
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(a) Necessity of publication
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(b) Strict requirements for consent
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(3) Re-publication: Weighing ‘interests’ against ‘old and new purposes’
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(a) Misconceptions in the decision of “Mr. González vs. Google Spain”
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(b) Excursus: Case law provided for by the German Constitutional Court
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(c) Conclusion in regards to the decision of “Mr. González vs. Google Spain”
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cc) Internal freedom of development
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(1) Does the German right to informational self-determination provide for such a guarantee?
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(2) Discussion on such a substantial guarantee
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(3) Articles 7 and/or 8 ECFR: Information pursuant to insights into personality and possibilities of manipulation
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dd) Specific rights to freedom
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(1) Focus on the collection of data: Omission by the individual of exercising their rights out of fear
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(a) Considerations of the Courts with respect to the freedom of expression and the individuals risk of being unreasonably suspected by the State
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(b) Considerations on further rights of freedom
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(2) Focus on the later usage of data or information: Restriction or hindrance of exercise of rights of freedom through usage of data or information
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(3) Interim conclusion: How “privacy in public” can be further determined
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(a) Specific contexts of collection of personal data
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(b) Later use of personal data in the same context
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(c) Protection instruments enabling the individual to adapt to or protect him or herself against the informational measure
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ee) Rights to equality and non-discrimination
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(1) In the public sector: Criteria for intensity of infringement
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(2) In the private sector: ‘Tool of opacity’ vs. private autonomy?
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(3) Interim conclusion: Additional legitimacy requirement for the data-based decision-making process
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c) Conclusion: Purpose specification during innovation processes
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III. Requirement of purpose limitation in light of the range of protection
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1. Different models of purpose limitation and change of purpose
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a) European models: ‘Reasonable expectations’ and purpose compatibility
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aa) Change of purpose pursuant to ECtHR and ECJ
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(1) ECtHR: ‘Reasonable expectations’ as a main criteria
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(2) ECJ: Reference to data protection instruments instead of ‘reasonable expectations’
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(a) Are the terms ‘necessity’, ‘adequacy’ and ‘relevance’ used as objective criteria for the compatibility assessment?
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(b) Purpose identity for the consent
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bb) Compatibility assessment required by the Data Protection Directive with respect to the opinion of the Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party
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(1) Preliminary analysis: Pre-conditions and consequences
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(2) Example: The expectations of a customer purchasing a vegetable box online
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(3) Criteria for the substantive compatibility assessment
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(a) First criteria: ‘Distance between purposes’
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(b) Second criteria: ‘Context and reasonable expectations’
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(c) Third criteria: ‘Nature of data and impact on data subjects’
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(d) Fourth criteria: ‘Safeguards ensuring fairness and preventing undue impact’
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(4) Excursus: Compatibility of ‘historical, statistical or scientific purposes’
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(a) Specification of the compatibility assessment (even prohibiting positive effects)
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(b) Safeguards corresponding to the characteristics of the purposes
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(c) Hierarchy of safeguards: From anonymization to functional separation
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cc) Purpose identity required by the ePrivacy Directive
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(1) Strict purpose identity for the processing of ‘communication data’, ‘traffic data’ and ‘location data other than traffic data’
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(2) The individual’s consent as an exclusive legal basis for a change of purpose
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dd) Interim conclusion: A lack in the legal scale for compatibility assessment
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b) German model: Purpose identity and proportionate change of purpose
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aa) Change of purpose in the private sector pursuant to ordinary law
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(1) Strict purpose identity required by Telemedia Law and Telecommunication Law
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(2) The more nuanced approach established by the Federal Data Protection Law
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bb) Comparison with the principles developed by the German Constitutional Court for the public sector
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(1) Strict requirement of purpose identity limiting the intensity of the infringement
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(2) Proportionate change of purpose
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(3) Identification marks as a control-enhancing mechanism
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cc) Alternative concepts provided for in German legal literature
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(1) Purpose identity and informational separation of powers
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(a) Purpose specification by the individual instead of the controller
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(b) Principle of purpose limitation and informational separation of powers
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(c) Example of re-registration: Collection and transfer of data on the citizen’s request
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(2) Compatibility of purposes
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(a) Criticism of the “subjective” purpose approach
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(b) Compatibility instead of identity of purposes
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(c) Supplementing protection instruments
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(3) Purpose identity and change of purpose as ‘a threshold for duty of control‘
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(a) Criticism of purpose compatibility
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(b) Specification, identity and change of purpose as equivalent regulation instruments
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(c) The opposing fundamental rights providing for the objective legal scale
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dd) Interim conclusion: Right to control data causing a ‘flood of regulation’
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2. Solution approach: Controlling risks that add to those specified previously
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a) Conceptual shift: From the exclusion of unspecific risks to the control of specific risks
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aa) Different types of changes of purpose in light of different types of risks
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(1) Purpose compatibility as an “umbrella assessment”
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(2) Custer’s and Ursic’s taxonomy: “Data recycling, repurposing, and recontextualization”
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(3) Clarification of an objective scale: “Same risk, higher risk, and another risk”
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bb) Refinement of current concepts of protection
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(1) Article 8 ECFR and European secondary law
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(a) “Purpose identity” forbidding additional risks (than specified before)
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(b) Further protection instruments that can avoid purpose incompatibility
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(c) Systemizing the criteria for the compatibility assessment
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(2) Right to private life under Article 8 ECHR and the right to informational self-determination
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cc) Applying a ‘non-linear perspective’
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b) Substantial guarantees: Providing criteria for a compatibility assessment
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aa) Right of ‘being left alone’: ‘Reasonable expectations’ determined by risks
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bb) Self-representation in the public: A balancing exercise instead of purpose determination
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cc) Internal freedom of development: Specific instead of preliminary information
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dd) External freedoms of behavior: Purpose identity as one potential element amongst several protection instruments
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ee) Equality and non-discrimination: Specifying incompatible purposes in the course of social life
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c) Conclusion: Purpose limitation in decentralized data networks
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IV. Data protection instruments in non-linear environments
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1. Scope of application and responsibility (Article 8 sect. 1 ECFR)
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a) Problems in practice: A balance between too much and too little protection
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aa) How data may be related to an individual
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bb) Anonymization of personal data
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cc) Again: The problem of a “yes-or-no-protection” solution
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b) Alternative solution: Scope(s) pursuant to the type of risk
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aa) Theoretical starting point: Different levels of protection
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(1) Pro and cons for precautionary protection against abstract dangers
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(2) Abstract precautionary protection only in cases of special danger
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(3) Advantages of a nuanced approach
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bb) Differentiating between the general scope of protection and the application of specific protection instruments
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(1) General scope of protection enabling specification of purpose (aka risk)
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(2) Application of protection instruments determined by specific risks
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(a) Rights to privacy
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(b) Right of self-representation in the public
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(c) Internal freedom of behavior
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(d) Rights to freedom and non-discrimination
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(3) Again: General scope of protection requiring data security (against unspecific risks)
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c) Excursus: Responsibility (“controller” and “processor”)
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(1) Cumulative responsibility for precautionary protection
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(2) Cooperative responsibility for preventative protection
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2. Legitimacy of processing of personal data (Article 8 sect. 2 ECFR)
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a) Same measures but differently applied in the public and private sector
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aa) Different risks in the public and private sector
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bb) Example: Requirements to specify the purpose and limit the processing at a later stage
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cc) Legal-technical constraints surrounding the prohibition rule
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b) Possible approaches of regulation in the private sector
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aa) Classic instruments: Specific legal provisions, broad legal provisions, and/or consent
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bb) Conceptual shift: From a legal basis to ‘legitimacy assessment’
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cc) Side note: State regulated self-regulation increasing legal certainty
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dd) Interplay of consent and legal provisions
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c) Interim conclusion: Balancing the colliding fundamental rights
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3. The individual’s “decision-making process” (in light of the GDPR)
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a) Static perspective: Opt-in or opt-out procedure for consent?
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aa) Classic discussion regarding current data protection laws
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bb) Further approaches considered by the legislator and Constitutional Courts
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cc) Requirements illustrated so far, with respect to different guarantees
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b) Dynamic perspective: Interplay of several protection instruments
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aa) Consent: “Later processing covered by specified purpose?”
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(1) Risks as object of consent (not data)
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(2) Extent of consent limiting the later use of data (instead of being illegal as a whole)
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(3) Change of purpose: Opt-out procedures for higher and opt-in procedures for other risk
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bb) Clarifying recital 50 GDPR: “Separate legal basis if purpose not compatible”
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(1) Arg. ex contrario: Is an incompatible purpose legal on a separate legal basis?
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(2) Differentiating between “not compatible” and “incompatible” purposes
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(3) Assessment of safeguards that ensure that purposes do not (definitely) become incompatible
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cc) Legal basis and opt-out: Change of purpose
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(1) Opt-out: A risk-reducing protection instrument
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(2) Examples: New risks not covered by consent (in light of the specified purpose)
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(3) Examples: New risks not covered by a former applicable provision
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dd) Information duties and further participation rights
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(1) Controller’s duties of information
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(a) Data collection: Customizing information in relation to daily decision-making processes
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(b) Change of purpose: Interpreting information duties regarding specific risks
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(c) Profiling and automated decision-making
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(2) Individual’s right to rectification
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c) Conclusion: Specifying the decision-making process (Art. 24 and 25 GDPR)
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D. Empirical approach in order to assist answering open legal questions
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I. Clarifying different risk assessment methodologies
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1. Different objects of risk assessments
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a) Risk-based approach of purpose specification and limitation (Art. 5 sect. 1 lit. b GDPR)
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b) Data Protection Impact Assessment (Art. 35 GDPR)
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c) Further methodologies (technology assessment and surveillance impact assessment)
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2. Different assessment methods
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a) Examining abstract constitutional positions from a social science perspective
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b) Pre-structuring interests through multiple-stakeholder and expert participation
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c) Specifying ‘decision-making process’ by user-centered development of data protection-by-design
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3. Interim conclusion: Unfolding complexity
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II. Multiple-case-studies: Combining research on risks with research on innovation processes
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1. Reason for the case study approach
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2. Generalizing the non-representative cases
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3. Designing the case studies
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III. Researching the effects of data protection instruments in regards to innovation processes
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1. Enabling innovation: Contexts, purposes, and specifying standards
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a) Enabling data controllers to increase legal certainty
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b) Enhancing competition on the “data protection” market
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c) Remaining questions in relation to the effects of legal standards
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2. Demonstration on the basis of the examples provided for in the introduction
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a) Example of “personalized advertising”
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aa) Preliminary legal analysis
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(1) Initial product and business model: Internal freedom of development
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(2) Change of product and business model: No substantive change of purpose
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bb) Open legal questions (‘propositions’)
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(1) Standardization of “personalized marketing” purpose
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(2) Competitive advantage
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b) Example of “anonymized data for statistic/research purposes”
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aa) Preliminary legal analysis
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(1) Processing of public personal data: Self-determination in public
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(2) The taxi driver: Attributing anonymized data to passengers
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bb) Open legal questions (‘propositions’)
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(1) Standardization of “statistical” or “scientific” purposes
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(2) Competitive advantage
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c) Example of “scoring in the employment context”
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aa) Preliminary legal analysis
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(1) Re-publication of personal data: fair balance instead of a priority rule
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(2) Freedom to find an occupation: Participation instruments
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bb) Open legal questions (‘propositions’)
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(1) Standardization of “profiling potential employees”
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(2) Signaling legal certainty (to the “workers’ council”)
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5. Summary: Standardizing “purposes” of data processing
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E. Final conclusion: The principle of purpose limitation can not only be open towards but also enhancing innovation
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