Germany

August 29, 2017

New Case Law on Restrictions for Employee Monitoring in the Workplace in Germany

According to the German Federal Labor Court, Germany’s highest court for employment disputes, German employers are not allowed to monitor […]

August 28, 2017

From August, a train station in Berlin will be the testing ground for surveillance cameras with biometric face recognition capability. […]

August 28, 2017

The German Ministry of Interior affairs has published an English translation of the new Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – […]

August 16, 2017

Recently, the fourth edition of the book, The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2017, was published by the […]

August 3, 2017

Are bosses going too far when they use spy software to track employees’ every keystroke? Apparently yes, according to a […]

July 11, 2017

On 5 July 2017, almost a year before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be applied, the new German […]

June 29, 2017

A German law requiring internet service providers to store data on internet and telephone usage for up to 10 weeks […]

June 25, 2017

A law due to come into force in days in Germany on storing internet usage data breaks EU regulations, a […]

June 25, 2017

On June 20, 2017, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure issued a report on the ethics of […]

June 22, 2017

A data protection watchdog in Germany has asked 150 businesses to complete a “fictitious audit report” to detail how prepared […]

June 22, 2017

Germany will start testing facial recognition software at a Berlin train station this summer which could help police identify and […]

May 25, 2017

On May 24, 2017, the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) published a questionnaire to help companies assess their level of […]