A few days ago, the book on the anonymization of judgments edited by Daniel Huerlimann and Daniel Kettiger was published. The book chapters examine, among other things, what exactly is meant by anonymization, how judgments are anonymized, and how much effort is required to do so. The book, published by Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag, is available as a freely accessible PDF file (open access) and also in print.

At this webinar for the Swiss Retail Federation, Thomas Steiner discussed key requirements of the revised Swiss Federal Data Protection Act and offered practical tips for their implementation at retail companies. Here's the slide deck.

In his recent video contribution to the LegalInnovation conference, Christian Laux outlines why law firms can use cloud solutions and what documentation the law firm should prepare (reports on technical and organizational measures including legal opinions). The law firm should choose solutions that do not result in plain-text access to client information during normal operations. The legal framework applicable to lawyers must always strictly be adhered to.

Our lawyers need to keep up to date with ongoing discussions and legislative changes in the field of IT law. Here, we have compiled an overview of IT law-related matters as they are currently being dealt with in the current Spring session in the Swiss Parliament. We share this to permit our clients to keep up to date, too.

The NZZ of March 3, 2021 published an article on the E-Justice Act (Federal Act on the Platform for Electronic Communication in the Judiciary). The article referred to the contribution “Die Urteilspublikation gehört ins E-Justice-Gesetzt” by Daniel Hürlimann, Christian Laux and three other co-authors. The NZZ article provides a good overview of the controversial points of the E-Justice Act. The consultation period expired by end of February and it is expected that the Federal Council will dispatch the draft bill soon.

In the referendum campaign on the BGEID, fears are being stirred up in order to reinterpret what is in itself a technical bill into a battle of "good versus evil". Christian Laux responded to such an inaccurate representation on "Inside Paradeplatz".

In his current Lex Laux column, Christian Laux takes an almost philosophical approach to the connection between IT and feelings. Feelings that, for example, sometimes boil up in connection with the current E-ID debate, which is not only helpful for the factual analysis - or maybe it is?

Christian Laux has published a data protection analysis on the E-ID Act in the Fokus Rechtsguide, a publication appeared alongside Tages Anzeiger dated 21 January 2021.

Daniel Huerlimann, together with National National Councillor Beat Flach (Green Liberal Party) has published his analysis and overview on Parliament’s improvement to the Federal Law on Electronic Identification Services (BGEID) in NZZ dated 18 January 2021.