Courts have access to constitutional issues

Bern - For many National Councils, it was only the second day in office and already they had to decide on a conversion on the foundation of the Swiss political system. In a tight vote, they voted on Tuesday to the introduction of a constitutional court.

This is one of the oldest Zankäpfel of Swiss politics. Until today, the Federal Parliament enacted federal laws that contradict the Constitution. The Federal Constitution itself forbids the courts to intervene against it. Thus, the federal court did in the past repeatedly forced to apply laws which it judged itself to be unconstitutional. Often this process ended in Strasbourg, where the Human Rights Court for a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights stated, and the Swiss authorities called to order.
Distrust of courts

Force since the founding of the state system is rooted in the principle of separation of powers: The Supreme Court should not be done via the federal legislature. Behind it, a certain distrust towards the hidden food.

Voting results in Parliament. /

Against the constitutional court is the fear that is always done in the field, that the Federal Court could thus become a political body. As a cautionary tale in this country, the German Bundesgerichtshof, which regularly picks decrees of the Parliament as being incompatible with the Basic Law. This is not in Switzerland in the future be possible. At the suggestion of his rights, the National Commission on Tuesday agreed to while the repeal of Article 190 of the Federal Constitution, which prohibits the constitutional court. The courts should not review the decree itself unconstitutional and, if you cancel, but only for specific applications. Not subject to appeal would thus be about the law that sets for women and men have different retirement age. But a man might prevail in court, to be retired in the same age as a woman.

Bind with mobile service customers to the company

Karlsruhe (bb). The road to retrieve emails, read news and manage social networks - all that is today thanks to smart phones and tablet PCs is no longer a problem. Mobile devices are widely available - and offer a new opportunity for companies, also bind to their mobile customers through service in itself.

"Summarizes New Digital Mobility together a range of services that will enable us in future, on the go at any time to access our data and a variety of applications," stated Thomas Bendig, Managing Director of the Fraunhofer research association for information and communication technology (ICT) .
The Fraunhofer ICT Group is currently developing concepts that can be utilized over device boundaries - from the TV to the phone to the car. "Our access to digital media and information in the future will not rip off the device's limitations," says Bendig. Thus one is about a movie that you could not see on TV ends, you can continue on his phone in the car.

For businesses, this mobile access to the customers a great opportunity. "With the mobile device, the customer has moved even closer to the company, because he can not only receive at any time in any place all the information, but as it is also feedback and interact more with the company and communicates," said Dr. Torsten Wingenter, Director The Global Social Media Marketing of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
Lufthansa German Airlines is currently testing different approaches to customer loyalty. "Passengers are increasingly appreciated mobile check-in options or our digital boarding pass - which means that we can prevent in advance through this service offers our customers closely to the company."

Thomas Bendig emphasized that while the benefits to customers in the development of new applications should always be the priority: "Having access to digital services at various locations met with positive response especially if the offer matches the location and if security, transparency easy operation and a central component of development. "
Especially the security is, however, in the use of mobile devices, a major challenge. For business trips employees need full access to data and applications. Obviously, it will always be guaranteed access security for all applications. This is frequently done via password requests. That the road can cause problems, also knows Dr. Jörg Liebe, CIO of Lufthansa Systems AG: "Did people forget their password, it is difficult to go to prove that he has lawful access to appropriate information and applications. Lufthansa Systems covers this case with the system password reset Interactive (PIA) from. "

PIA is hidden behind a system for biometric voice authentication. After a one-time registration, an employee can call to reset the basis of its unique features of a forgotten password. This allows password resets accelerated significantly, reduced processing costs and simultaneously increase the safety of the procedure.
Thomas Bendig, Dr. Torsten Wingenter and Dr. Jörg Liebe be on 29 and 30 E12-November at the summit in Karlsruhe as a guest. Under the theme "Designing Digital Business", they will discuss with 200 experts from the eBusiness industry about the future of eBusiness and introduce the systems described in the article.

Background
The E12-Summit is a product of the Institute of Electronic Business, and is organized by the MDKK. He takes 2011 as the 13th Time this year. The Congress is one of the leading companies consider themselves creative initiative with annually changing digital hot topics. The partners of the E12 summit, this year the German Lufthansa AG, Lufthansa Systems AG, Cheil, Daimler AG, Dassault Systèmes Germany, KPMG, T-Systems MMS, as Visenso GmbH, Fraunhofer IUK as a technology partner and the BITKOM Associations Partners and Karlsruher Messe-und Kongress-GmbHt (KMK) as host. Among the media partners include InnoVisions, IT SME, IT and digital exchanges manager.
As a cross-industry network brings the E12 summit every year users and manufacturers from different companies and industries together and provides them with a platform for exchanging views on topics from the fields of eBusiness and digital communication.

Fines for face recognition service?

The strange woman at the next table? Just get on it keep up with the
camera phone and can check on Facebook, as the hot well. Or so look
horrific visions that plague so far, especially privacy advocates.

What social networks are actually doing with all the personal
information that we give them voluntarily or involuntarily? Does
deleted truly deleted - or just somewhere pushed towards?

Even Voßkuhle Andreas, president of the Federal Constitutional Court,
has recently been thinking aloud, that the highest German court could
deal with it soon, "the meaning and scope of fundamental rights in a
world of digital networking to identify new".

Networking opportunity of equal access to information, new
possibilities to deal with the world, are one thing. At the same time
sees Voßkuhle surfing on Internet social networking sites, given the
mania for collecting data from companies like Facebook but as
"risk-inclined activities": Here is not paid with money but with some
very sensitive personal information.

In summer, Hamburg data protection Johann Caspar has created with
Facebook. The reason: Even in Germany the company has activated the
automatic face recognition, a service of the end of 2010 was launched
in the U.S.. Caspar's accusation: his network users have neither asked
nor informed consent to use their data. And so it goes: If Facebook
users to upload a photo of her side and provided with information
("This is Thomas from the Frankfurter Strasse") may, Facebook using
biometric image recognition programs recognize Thomas on other photos.
This linking of data from a growing database is only offered Facebook
friends of Thomas. But this need not remain so.

Therefore also calls on Caspar Facebook, to comply with German and EU
data protection law. Users should be asked for a yes to the active use
of facial recognition software. Not only the new ones, but also every
20 million years old German Facebook users. For months, Hamburg data
protection has been negotiating with the managers of the network. No
result - now threatens to fine and Caspar injunction.

The EU also wants social networks deal with personal data no longer
quite so freely: Complete records of users to the advertising industry
to give - anonymously, such as Facebook insists - after plans should
be permitted only with the consent of those affected.

biometric access control systems

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