Professor Kai von Lewinski

Kai von Lewinski is Professor of Public Law, Media Law and Information Law at the University of Passau and chaired the DFG-funded Research Training Group 1681/2 ‘Privacy and Digitalisation’. Prior to this, he was the Academic Director of the Foundation for Data Protection in Leipzig and has worked on a Global Privacy Governance project of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.

‘My research angle arises from the fact that information is available globally, while the applicability of laws is geographically limited. I find it invigorating to work on questions of cultural conditionality of law before the background of the global nature of the internet in a group that encompasses fellow academics from different disciplines.’

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The focal points of Professor von Lewinski’s research include freedom of information and data privacy law.

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Research Stories

At the Science Slam ‘Everything digital?!’, participants score points with creativity, wordplay and acrobatic skills. Review with videos of the contributions.

Professor Kai von Lewinski takes on artificial intelligence and explains its answers with computer science professor Steffen Herbold.

The digital world asks us this question several times a day: should we share our data? A video explaining the interdisciplinary bidt project "Vectors of data disclosure", which examines the general legal and cultural conditions of that moment.

PICAIS Fellow Professor Normann Witzleb has travelled from Hong Kong to the University of Passau for a study visit to address this challenge. An exchange about artificial intelligence, global data protection and rooftop views.

At the bidt conference "Vectors of data disclosure" #VoD22 in Munich, the interdisciplinary project team presented and debated their initial findings. In this article, researchers give insights into their work.