Summer nights have arrived, allowing to have beautifully coloured sundowners in pretty rooftop bars.
NSFW (Nikolaus Song of the Week)
This week’s song is a beautiful cover from Skunk Anansie.
It’s also on YouTube
I like the cover much more than the original which is still interesting, in particular the video.
And there’s also a version with both singing the song together (bad sound quality unfortunately).
Retrospect
This was a short but intense week.
Gigs
I had three rather big gigs. On Tuesday morning, I visited the 70ies-like Rudolf Sallinger Saal in the chamber of commerce.
I spoke on a Sepp Hochreiter statement on the AI-act and the negative impact it has for his work (online here, starting at 34:00 minutes. I “deconstructed” his intervention in 45 minutes with my legal perspective.
Mario Zechner, kindly summarised the talk on Twitter.
The presentation was recorded and should be back online soon.
Tuesday afternoon was dedicated to reflections on 6 years of GDPR. Martin Selmayr was a marvelous host and master of ceremony. We had keynotes from Alma Zadić and Jan Philipp Albrecht. Alma Zadić put an excerpt into her Instagram channel as well.
Kleine Zeitung brought a piece due to this occasion
I was really happy about the oustandingly nice and smooth cooperation with Martin Selmayr; and I was very proud about the impressive performance given by Hande Özkayagan Prändl
-both chairing high level panels brilliantly.
We put the whole conference on YouTube.
The third edition of the Selmayr/Ehmann commentary on GDPR was nicely presented at the conference and I heared rumors that an English version of the book might be in the pipeline.
On Thursday I was in Berlin on a large data protection conference.
Two presentations were, in my view, truly outstanding.
Prof. Haya Schulmann gave a breathtaking talk on current attack vectors via distributed services. The presentation is not online (as far as I know), but another one (from 2021) is on YouTube.
The second was an interview I was allowed to do with Sönke Iwersen. Iwersen leads the group on investigative journalism at Handelsblatt. He gave a first hand overview about the “Tesla files” and the unbelievable story behind it. The issue affected huge amounts of personal data of thousands of Tesla-employees - including Elon Musk’s - whose personal email adresses, social security number etc. were compromised.
Handelsblatt published some YouTube videos on the story.
There are a few kind reports about the event on LinkedIn (f. e. here or here) and Twitter.
Publication
A short article was published in Versicherungsrundschau on digitalisation in the insurance industry. Some more is in the pipeline.
Prospect
Datenschutztag
The Austrian Ministry of Justice, the Austrian DPA and the “Datenschutzrat” organise their yearly conference on Tuesday. This year’s topic is - surprise - AI and data protection.
I will attend (in the audience, not as a speaker). Speakers are, inter alia, Christiane Wendehorst and Wolfgang Zankl from UNIVIE.
#arsboni
I am very much looking forward to an episode in the upcoming week on burnout (prevention), #ichbinhanna, academic third mission and corporate culture in academia.
I highly recommend my guests’ own podcast:
Austrian Cardiologic Society
I will speak at the Yearly Conference of the “Österreichische Kardiologische Gesellschaft” in Salzburg on Thursday, May 30, at 8.30 am (which is very early, specifically on a public holiday). This will hopefully be an interesing excursion into rather unkown territory of medical conference culture. My topic will be: “KI und digitale Tools mit Verantwortung: rechtliche Aspekte”. The full programme is online.
Daisy
reflects on humanity and its weird condition.
© Felix Forgó
Have a wonderful week!
Kind regards
Nikolaus (Forgó)