{"id":39118,"date":"2026-08-21T15:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/publication\/theory-vs-practice-how-secure-are-bluetooth-low-energy-capable-health-devices-compared-to-legal-requirements\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:21:00","slug":"theory-vs-practice-how-secure-are-bluetooth-low-energy-capable-health-devices-compared-to-legal-requirements","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/publication\/theory-vs-practice-how-secure-are-bluetooth-low-energy-capable-health-devices-compared-to-legal-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory vs. Practice: How Secure are Bluetooth Low Energy-Capable Health Devices Compared to Legal Requirements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a world becoming increasingly \u2019smart\u2019, be it in<\/p>\n<p>industry, at home, or in medicine, secure data storage and<\/p>\n<p>transmission become even more important. But how secure<\/p>\n<p>is this in practice, and do vendors comply with current law<\/p>\n<p>to adequately protect the users\u2019 or companies\u2019 data? We<\/p>\n<p>chose empatica\u2019s EpiMonitor as a \u2019smart\u2019 and medically cer-<\/p>\n<p>tified device to exemplify what such a technical assessment<\/p>\n<p>and legal analysis could look and which vulnerabilities may<\/p>\n<p>occur. This assessment and analysis are transferable to other<\/p>\n<p>wearable devices, possibly with slight modifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world becoming increasingly \u2019smart\u2019, be it in industry, at home, or in medicine, secure data storage and transmission become even more important. But how secure is this in practice, and do vendors comply with current law to adequately protect the users\u2019 or companies\u2019 data? We chose empatica\u2019s EpiMonitor as a \u2019smart\u2019 and medically cer- tified device to exemplify what such a technical assessment and legal analysis could look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication-type":[32],"class_list":["post-39118","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication-type-inproceedings"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/39118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/39118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=39118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}