16 years later, the development has progressed.

Today, there are sensors that continuously measure blood sugar and at the same time interact with an insulin pump that automatically raises or lowers the insulin supply depending on the blood sugar value.

Aids such as insulin pumps and blood sugar sensors are absolutely crucial for a diabetic's everyday life.

But the very latest technology is currently difficult to access for diabetics, due to several legal obstacles SVT has previously reported on.

- They have been waiting for this technology for five to six years and followed it.

And now it is finally here, but due to this legal problem we will not have access to it, says Martin Rappinger resigned.

SVT explains: Therefore, the latest diabetes technology can not be used - GDPR says no

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SVT's reporter explains the tours and the problem in that diabetics' personal data ends up in American cloud services.

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