Part 4: Outlook on Future Developments

Abstract

Technological developments have shaped the last decade significantly through the introduction of new communication forms and productive tools that are, for most part, based on cloud systems. These tools, however, create much uncertainty as to how they operate and as to the underlying privacy and data protection implications they create. Often a user of a service is not aware of its precise provisioning and thus must rely on the service provider’s data protection and security measures.