Research

Current Projects

Better protection of employee data for economic success (EduMiDa)

Due to high cost pressures, companies increasingly resort to so-called agile ressource planning, e.g. the real-time collection of location data of employees to avoid idle times and the associated costs. Such data can be very sensitive though, and should thus be collected in a privacy-friendly way in order to protect employees.

It is the objective of the project "Success through Employee Data Protection" (EduMiDa) to research and to develop automatedly verifiable metrics, with the help of which employees can control how their data is protected. The metrics also support works councils and company data protection officers in their cooperation and control duties. The EduMiDa project team also investigates the economic contexts of measures of employee data protection to assess the adequacy of data protection measures from a legal as well as an economic point of view. A selection of the developed metrics are to be implemented in a demonstrator and to be tested in a real-life application scenario.

The IGMR supports the research project with its legal expertise in the field of employee data protection law. Project partner of the University of Bremen (IGMR) are the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT), Darmstadt (Coordinator), the University of Münster and the application partner p.l.i. solutions GmbH, Gütersloh. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

https://www.forschung-it-sicherheit-kommunikationssysteme.de/projekte/edumida

Duration: 1.6.2021 - 30.11.2023