In the December issue of the Richterzeitung, an article by Daniel Hürlimann, Christian Laux and three other authors was published suggesting that the publication of judgments should be included in the E-Justice Act. The E-Justice Act is in the consultation phase until mid-February. Unfortunately, the Federal Council has missed the opportunity to include the publication of judgments in the law. It is to be hoped that this will change by the draft stage. Otherwise, the topic would still have to be included in the law as a result of the parliamentary deliberations.

In the joint publication with Claudio Fuchs for MQ (Management and Quality) Christian Laux uses the example of a hospital to show why companies should close be diligent when permitting remote access to on-premise applications.

Christian Laux dedicates his Lex Laux column to the cyber security month of October and takes up the legal aspects of IT security. His finding: IT security is at the core of information law.

In collaboration with other organizations, Swiss Data Alliance has drawn up a guideline on data portability in the spirit of a data policy "as a service" in order to prepare companies and administrations in Switzerland for future discussions on this important topic. On 26 June, Christian Laux presented the corresponding working paper to the ERFA Group on Data Protection of renowned insurance companies. The slides of the presentation now are available online.

With societies preparing for an exit from lockdown, Tracing Apps become important. In his april-column on inside-IT Christian Laux discusses the promising protocol used by WeTrace, as well as the PEPP-PT initiative. “We must be critical”.

Open Data has a lot of potential, and the IT world should put more focus on Open Data. Christian Laux suggests Open Data as a way out from a political dispute about whether nationality and origin of suspected offenders should be disclosed in the Police’s twitter feeds etc.