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‘Data Protection 4.0’ is an abbreviated and perhaps somewhat misleading term. At first glance, it suggests the existence of clearly definable development stages of data protection law or milestones falling within successive periods. Where there is version number 4.0, there must surely have been versions 3.0, 2.0 and 1.0. Such events can of course be accounted for. The enactment of the world’s first data protection law in 1970 in Hessen, Germany, the introduction of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) in 1978, the census ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court in 1983 and most recently the applicability of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. Without a doubt, these events also heralded radical changes in data protection law. However, their significance for the development of the legal field is more complicated than simply updating the version as the numbering suggests. Data Protection 4.0 can only be explained against the background of the concept of Industry 4.0.

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von dem Bussche, A. (2022). Data Protection 4.0. In: Frenz, W. (eds) Handbook Industry 4.0. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64448-5_8

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