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Henning Lahmann

Dr. Henning Lahmann is a Senior Researcher at the Digital Society Institute at the European School of Management and Technology Berlin.

POSTS BY Henning Lahmann

15 February 2021

Robin Geiß, Henning Lahmann

Data Protection in Armed Conflict

These days, our thoroughly digitalised societies run on data. It is therefore only natural that experts of international humanitarian law (IHL) have for a while now pondered over the question of how to treat data under the existing legal frameworks applicable to armed conflicts. However, the ongoing discussion concerning the status and possible protection of civilian data in armed conflict is in need of increased clarity and granularity. Continue reading >>

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16 July 2020

Henning Lahmann

Hacking Back and International Law: An Irreconcilable Pair?

Imagine you‘re at the onset of a global pandemic, and one of the nation‘s leading hospitals falls victim to a debilitating cyberattack, crippling its medical infrastructure for days. This is exactly what happened to Brno University Hospital on March 13, then home to one of the largest COVID-19 testing facilities in the Czech Republic. Now imagine further that your national security authorities identify a command and control server through which the attackers execute the malicious cyber operation, which would end immediately if you were to hack “back” into that system to render it inoperative (this part is fiction). Technically, that would be feasible. Alas, you realise that the server is located abroad. Shouldn't you be allowed to go ahead and heroically save the nation? Continue reading >>

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