Government coalition wants to fight illegal employment with IP addresses The grand coalition has agreed on a “repair law”, with which she wants to adapt the rules for information on existing data to the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court. In the future, customs authorities will be able to access inventory data such as names, addresses and email addresses of users in order to take action against undeclared work. You can also query IP addresses for this purpose and compare them with participants. This is what a heise online bill provides for. Furthermore, the military shielding service is now expressly to be able to access inventory data from providers of telemedia services including IP addresses.

Security deficiencies in card terminals in doctor’s offices and health insurance apps Thanks to the digitalization of the health system, full waiting rooms, misplaced doctor’s letters and long distances to the country doctor should soon be a thing of the past after running a lot in healthcare via apps on the smartphone. The central building block are the apps of the health insurance companies. Europe’s largest IT and tech magazine c’t has for the current issue 19 apps from German health insurance companies and card terminals in Examined doctor’s offices and discovered some hair-raising safety deficiencies. Read the whole story in c’t.

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EU pledges to the United Nations with a new climate target The European Union pledged to the United Nations until 2030 their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 Percent below the value of 1990. The ministers also called for this value to be included in the EU climate law. The law still has to be negotiated with the European Parliament, which wants to push through a more ambitious goal. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said she was confident that an agreement could be reached. Overall, the SPD politician was highly satisfied with the decisions. The EU target is now irreversible and binding.

Development of Covid – 19 – Vaccines Breakthrough of the Year The rapid development of effective vaccines against Covid – 19 is the most important research breakthrough of the year for the makers of the renowned Science magazine. Never before had so many competitors worked together so openly and regularly, the joint efforts of governments, industry, science and non-profit organizations are just as unique, according to the reason for the “Breakthrough of the Year”.

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