Germany

March 1, 2019

Berlin court rules against Apple data protection guidelines

The Court of Appeal in Berlin has ruled that the data protection guidelines used by Apple in 2011 were partially […]

February 25, 2019

In Germany, DPAs are investigating a broad range of non-compliance issues and showing a tendency toward increasing their enforcement activities, […]

February 11, 2019

Facebook has said it will appeal a decision by Germany’s main competition authority that serves to restrict its collection and […]

February 8, 2019

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

February 8, 2019

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 […]