Dr. Langemak: There is no way around digitisation. Be it the development of more effective and personalised medication or the prediction and mitigation of future epidemics: We need more and better-quality research data and analyses. However, two factors are imperative for laying the groundwork: ensuring maximum possible data security and informing users and providers of data of the potential risks they face when releasing their data. There is already a good legal framework in place at a  European level. However, the current debate on corona tracking and tracing apps shows that this is not always sufficient in individual cases.