Thomas Rickert reports on the ongoing work of the EPDP in ICANN, and coming up with a digestible – if not appetizing – solution to data protection compliance for the Whois service.

The Digital Summit of the German Federal Government will take place this year on 28 and 29 October in Dortmund under the motto "Digital Platforms". eco will be present several times on both days and will actively participate in the high-level discussions between politics and business. We talked to eco’s Managing Director Alexander Rabe about the event.

Thomas Rickert, Director of Names & Numbers at the eco Association speaks to Lars Steffen from eco about the challenge of creating a universally applicable, data protection compliant, system for the Whois database.

Rather than robots, it will be monitoring systems using AI that will enable people to live independently for longer, VIVAI’s Bettina Horster argues. Read more on dotmagazine.