Acta Informatica Pragensia, 2019 (vol. 8), issue 2

Digitally-Powered Human Resource Management: Skills and Roles in the Digital Era

Anastasiia Mazurchenko, Kateřina Maršíková

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2019, 8(2), 72-87 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.12513733  

Digitalization in human resource management helps enterprises to modernize HR functions and provides them with a competitive advantage. At the same time, it requires a change in working style and entails a change in the demand for HR competencies. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the phenomenon of digitalization in the literature, explore its current key benefits and risks, and analyse its influence on HR professionals´ competencies and roles. The qualitative research includes an analysis of the secondary data describing the existing level of digital skills based on the reactions of more than 7,000 respondents from six EU member states (Germany,...

Analýza biometrických údajů v kontextu obecného nařízení o ochraně osobních údajů

Analysis of Biometric Data Under the General Data Protection Regulation

Ján Matejka, Soňa Matochová, Josef Prokeš

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2019, 8(2), 88-111 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.1263894  

The article deals with the topical issue of the current digital age, the questions related to the legal protection of biometric data, including the potentiality of their misuse. These issues have not yet been systematically addressed in the Czech Republic and there is no statistical data on public attitudes towards biometric data and its use. This article presents an analysis of the current legal regulation, which places a significantly higher standard than the previous legislation on the processing of biometric data as a special category of personal data. The authors considered both particular consequences of the impact of this regulation on human...

A Probe Survey of Bitcoin Transactions Through Analysis of Advertising in an On-Line Discussion Forum

Zoltan Ban, Jan Lansky, Stanislava Mildeova, Petr Tesar

Acta Informatica Pragensia 2019, 8(2), 112-131 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aip.12720404  

Cryptocurrencies have become a major phenomenon in recent years. For IT, a breakthrough is both the cryptocurrency itself as a commodity and the technology that cryptocurrency development has brought. The article focuses on the bitcoin cryptocurrency as the most important cryptocurrency. A relatively unexplored topic is what goods or services are purchased for bitcoins. To track what bitcoins are spent on, it is necessary to look for places that are dedicated to trading cryptocurrencies. The bitcointalk.org forum was chosen as a source for our data mining. The aim of the article is to find an answer to the research question: What are bitcoins on the...