Who benefits from data protection law

There are numerous pages on the subject of data protection, many write something similar, it is always something different. That's because it's constantly changing, that's the only way it can keep making money. It reminds me of how very long-lasting lightbulbs have been replaced by quickly dying “more sustainable” varieties. Which are probably not that much more sustainable, but optimized in plannable quantities and profits, and always have to be bought new.

Now I am interested in how modern data protection is sustainable. To this end, I deal with the following questions and close with my conclusion.

What are the benefits of data protection

Of course it is about the protection of personal data. Which are publicly accessible for the self-employed anyway, but they may only be used for legitimate purposes and that is regulated by data protection.

The right to information and the right to be forgotten and deletion should actually be the tools to determine for yourself who is holding data. But postal addresses can still be used. In addition, there are special rules for public institutions as well as retention requirements that ensure that I can keep observing how my data appear somewhere where they shouldn't actually be.

Complete e-mail correspondence that is about four years old and is now being used as an attempt to send me trojans only recently turned up. I was not aware of a data leak at the interlocutor, an online retailer.

If we follow the money, then a completely different use quickly becomes apparent to us. Lawyers who offer protection against warnings. When I think of the online website auditing programs, I always feel like I'm taking the risk of being reprimanded for not purchasing services from someone whose website is being audited. I wouldn't call it extortion, but for me the fact that you can be warned online for an incorrect presentation has a bad, bitter aftertaste. Because you should consider that companies do not need to post an imprint on their front door. Also, the visitor who hands over a business card does not have to sign a data protection declaration.

Of the many spam emails that I sent for automatic deletion according to data protection regulations, only one responded. A company that I asked to delete my data even used an outdated direct debit authorization for a contractual relationship that had been newly entered into under duress, after being asked to delete everything.

Who earns the most from data protection

Since lawyers are often preferred here and the prices of this clientele are really depressing, little sticks to the productively active part of the company that creates the basis for those who live off the productivity of others.

Monthly contracts are being offered more and more often, as with insurance policies, which – in my opinion – have been more than enough since the very first. In the end, the apparently low monthly costs are a good deal, but for the customer it is cheaper than an individual order from a lawyer.

There would probably be room for another website that offers automatically updated data protection declarations at fair prices.

To whom does data protection bring an advantage in the market

The large corporation, which can appoint someone from IT to be the data protection officer, can pass on the costs for this cheaply. The data protection officer creates immaterial structures, i.e. assets that represent added value, with which the costs can be deducted.

Due to the distribution of responsibilities and activities of large companies, only a small part of what the Service Information Obligation Ordinance provides appears in their online mandatory information, or do they all work without insurance?!!

What are the disadvantages and for whom

Small entrepreneurs are getting more and more administrative work, which keeps them from productive work and actual earnings, but means additional costs.

Although it is stated that the administrative burden should always be reduced and that work is being done on it, it is more than just lengthy.

It always seems to only grow, the tree of regulations, but the roots are dwindling, like the professionals who created productive real added value who migrate. What happens to a tree with rotting roots in the wind I leave to your imagination.

How to adapt and be prepared

What remains is to be as well prepared as possible to face the forced concoctions of those who live off what really productive people create.

With the sample generators from ratgeberrecht.eu for data protection declaration and imprint, a sole trader can often already get a sufficient version. Nevertheless, it is always the case that you are responsible for it yourself. So if you want any warning costs to be insured, you need an insured computer scientist (like me), a lawyer or, if you want it to be future-proof, a contract for ongoing updates.

However, as long as there is no data protection officer in the company, you should take precautions yourself. For example, you create a table in which you list all storage locations, together with all important information. In this way, you can react quickly to inquiries, provide information, safely carry out deletions and blocks and thus also comply with your data protection declaration.

Example of such a table (this should not be handled publicly):

LocationStorageDataWhoPurposeErasureSecurity
Headquarterhard diskcontact data, order dataHanscontact, order processingautomatically (in the ERP system) and manuallyVera-Crypt
PartnerCloudAppointments, names, addressesFranzcontact, order processingManualSSL/TLS
MobilSim CardTelephone numbers, namesHanscontactManual (and blocking via provider)PIN-Lock

 

There are also a few guidelines:

  1.      Do not use any apps that do not comply with the GDPR and the Telemedia Act
  2.      Use paper shredders for printed matter
  3.      If possible, do not store customer data online
  4.      Use domestic providers
  5.      Always keep the beer cool

Conclusion

Sustainable data protection brings in money for the data protectionists who ensure that data reaches all over the world.

According to the Service Information Obligations Ordinance, e.g. insurance must be specified. A customer will contact me and I will contact my insurance company. If the customer contacts my insurance company, they will tell him that they cannot provide any information for data protection reasons. So this regulation affects me like an exercise in obedience, like the big masquerade. Everyone realizes how relieving it is and how good it feels to have fresh air to breathe and not a symbol to shut up in front of your face. The logic in the case of data transfer dictates that, from a security perspective, only as little information as necessary be disclosed. Without mind as well as air to breathe, an orderly life is impossible.

Anything can be directed in the right direction even with common sense, whenever one individual with missteps obliges everyone else to practice obedience, I believe that he is one of the beneficiaries.

I am in favor of people always being able to freely decide what they think is right for them. It would only take a sensitization for such topics, for which the media can be used, then it would become a matter of course, as it is for me, to handle other people's data just as and more carefully than one's own.

„We need the individual who has the courage to say what he believes; what he thinks is right. The dissenters are necessarily far more important than the marchers; the exceptions are more important than the rules, because there is potential for renewal. And without the courage to be an individual, any group degenerates – it is inhuman. The courage to be an individual is the entry requirement for a humanitarian form of living together.“

Translated quote from Eugen Drewermann (theologian and psychologist)

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