Germany

February 8, 2019

German Regulator Says Facebook Can’t Use Data From Instagram and WhatsApp

Facebook “was able to build a unique database for each individual user and thus to gain market power,” says Andreas […]

January 24, 2019

A small business in Germany has been issued with a €5,000 fine for inadequate data processing standards, after misplacing one […]

January 16, 2019

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office intends to ban Facebook from collecting user data from third parties. This will also prohibit data […]

January 11, 2019

Since early December Germany’s Federal Office for IT Safety (BSI for its German initials) had been tracking a cyber attack […]

December 17, 2018

The Local Court ( Amtsgericht ) Diez (in a final decision dated 7 November 18, case number 8 C 130/18) […]

December 2, 2018

On Nov. 21 , the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Wuerttemberg (LfDI) imposed the first fine under […]

November 23, 2018

The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Wuerttemberg (LfDI) was the first German data protection authority to […]

November 12, 2018

On November 7, 2018, the Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector (the “BayLDA”) issued a press release […]

October 15, 2018

An interim injunction has been issued by Würzburg Regional Court against a lawyer who displayed an unfinished Privacy Policy on […]

October 5, 2018

Four months have passed since implementation deadline for the EU’s basic regulation on data protection. Only one quarter of companies […]

September 7, 2018

The German government is urging judges at the German Constitutional Court to submit a series of constitutional complaints filed against […]

August 27, 2018

In light of the GDPR, the German data protection authorities (German DPAs) have issued new guidance regarding the implementation of […]