Suchergebnisse für Privatsphäre und Datenschutz

Sekundärnutzung von Mobilitätsdaten: Infrastruktur und Governance bei Mobility-as-a-Service

Proponents and opponents hotly debate the so-called secondary use of data in sectors as diverse as health, education, energy and mobility. The parallelism of these discussions has led politicians to call for a framework law on the secondary use of data. By choosing Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), a promising service in the mobility sector, this article explores two connected features such a…

Auskunfts- und Einsichtsrecht des Aktionärs – Durchzogene Bilanz der Aktienrechtsrevision

The revision of the Swiss Code of Obligations (CO) concerning the joint stock corporation – which will come into force on 1 January 2023 – substantially alters the shareholders’ rights to ask for information about the affairs of the company and to inspect its ledgers and files. Compared to the present legal situation, which only entitles a shareholder to obtain information during the course of a…

KI Sandboxen für die Schweiz?

A sandbox allows companies to test innovative products, services, and business models in a live market environment. Stemming originally from the FinTech sector, sandboxes have recently gained importance, especially in the context of artificial intelligence, where they are intended to serve to resolve the conflict between data protection and innovation by allowing innovation while ensuring that…

Regulierung von künstlicher Intelligenz für FinTech-Anwendungen

New methods of artificial intelligence represent one of the greatest promises and most prospective developments of digitalisation. Artificial intelligence has already enabled numerous innovative applications in the areas of image recognition, medicine, language and mobility, and it is also increasingly being used in the financial market, on which this article focuses. In addition to great…

Fairnessregeln für Mitarbeiterbefragungen in internen Untersuchungen bei Banken

Internal investigations are the appropriate instrument for banks to clarify misconduct within the company. Like other companies, they are obliged to this «catharsis». The core element of internal investigations are the so-called «employee interviews». These interviews can represent a conflict situation for the company em­ployees. In principle, there is a duty to cooperate and to tell the truth…

Vergütungstransparenz in Schweizer Aktiengesellschaften

Die B. AG ist eine Holdinggesellschaft mit einem Aktienkapital von CHF 600 000, welches in 600 000 Namenaktien mit einem Nennwert von je CHF 1 eingeteilt ist. Die Geschwister A.A., C.A. und D.A. sind…

Feuerproben des neuen Datenschutzgesetzes – Ein «tour d’horizon»

In the area of conflict between diverging individual needs and competing societal interests, a multitude of «trial by fire» awaits the new federal data protection law. One of these is the smartphone, which, as an always-available means of mobile identification and documentation, is well on its way to become an electronic anklet for everyone.

Editorial

Am 23. September 2020 fand die 12. Tagung «Quo Vadis – Finanzplatz Schweiz?» unter der Leitung von Rolf Sethe und Christoph B. Bühler statt.

Schutz von Bankmitarbeiterdaten in Amtshilfeverfahren

In a landmark decision at the end of 2017, the Federal Supreme Court stated that in administrative assistance documents the names of bank employees must always be redacted. In July 2020, it took two further landmark decisions on the legal position of bank employees and other third parties in administrative assistance proceedings. Firstly, it concluded that, in general, an intended data transfer…

Die schleichende Erodierung des Bankkundengeheimnisses

This article shows how Swiss banking secrecy, which was primarily intended to protect privacy and was enshrined in law in response to the banking crisis of 1931, has been gradually eroded under increasing international pressure and adapted to international standards. In stark contrast to this, it continues to be valid at home. However, the existing legal obligations to inform and report to the…