Technologien

Global Privacy Assembly Closed Session 2020 - At your desk

When: 13-15 October 2020

Where: Online session

The newly renamed Global Privacy Assembly (formerly known as International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners - ICDPPC) took place this year 2020 during the period from October the 13th to October the 15th. This year's event wasn't immune to the COVID-19 pandemic currently occurring. Consequently the place of the event, which initially was planned to be held in Mexico City, had to be changed to a virtual setting, making it the first time that such an occasion was organized online.

Following you can find the resolutions adopted during this year's GPA:

Keynote speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski delivered at the Biometrics Annual Congress (via videolink), Brussels, Belgium

Formelle Bemerkungen des EDSB zu dem Entwurf einer Delegierten Verordnung der Kommission zur Ergänzung der Richtlinie (EU) 2010/31 des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates durch Einrichtung eines optionalen gemeinsamen Systems der Europäischen Union für die Bewertung der Intelligenzfähigkeit von Gebäuden und zur Durchführungsverordnung der Kommission über die technischen Modalitäten für die wirksame Umsetzung eines optionalen gemeinsamen Systems der Union für die Bewertung der Intelligenzfähigkeit von Gebäuden

Formelle Bemerkungen des EDSB zum Entwurf des Durchführungsbeschlusses der Kommission über:
1. die Mindestqualitätsstandards und technischen Spezifikationen für biometrische Daten im Schengener Informationssystem (SIS) im Bereich der Grenzkontrollen und Rückkehr
2. die Mindestqualitätsstandards und technischen Spezifikationen für biometrische Daten im Schengener Informationssystem (SIS) im Bereich der polizeilichen Zusammenarbeit und der justiziellen Zusammenarbeit in Strafsachen

Quantum computers can be highly beneficial to scientific developments due to the new, speedy way of performing computing. Once available, they however could break currently used cryptography and undermine the protection of (personal) data.

The physical laws of quantum mechanics allow for an alternative method to how today’s computers process information. Whereas traditional computers use bits (0 or 1) as a building block, quantum computers employ quantum bits, or qubits, that can be at the same moment a combination of |0⟩ and |1⟩.

The possible spectrum of values one qubit can adopt is best depicted by the surface of the Bloch sphere in Figure 1. While bits allow for two discrete values, qubits can store a point in a two-dimensional continuum, a surface of a sphere. Quantum computing can take advantage of those more powerful qubits and carry out operations not only for a determined value |0⟩ or |1⟩, but also for all possible superpositions at the same time. Consequently, quantum computing attains an efficiency advantage over binary computing for selected tasks. Some tasks would be rendered only feasible due to this efficiency boost, if the appropriate quantum computer hardware were available.

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