Monitoring of Employees Faces under Scrutiny in Europe
European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.
Germany
German police take down ‘world’s largest darknet marketplace’
A German-led police sting has taken down the “world’s largest” darknet marketplace.
Germany′s foreign intelligence service under pressure
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) screens hundreds of millions of emails annually. The European Court of Human Rights is now looking into this practice.
German Federal Government Passed a Draft Law Amending Germany’s Information Technology Laws
German Federal Government passed a draft law that substantially amends some of Germany’s information technology laws.
German DPA fines company 10.4 million euros for monitoring employees without legal basis
The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 10.4 million euros on notebooksbilliger.de AG.
Law enforcement wiretapped the very service used by criminals to evade interception
The virtual private network (VPN) Safe-Inet used by the world’s foremost cybercriminals has been taken down in a coordinated law enforcement action
German top court strikes down plank of anti-terror law
Germany’s top court struck down a key passage of an anti-terror law on data protection grounds, raising the bar for security services to swap information.
Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox
Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.
Apple hit with privacy complaints over iPhone tracking tool
A privacy group Noyb has filed complaints with the German and Spanish data protection authorities under the EU’s Cookie Law […]
German lawsuit accuses Amazon of breaking EU privacy law
Amazon faces a lawsuit in Germany over claims it has continued to transfer data to the United States using an […]
No GDPR damages after data breach, says German court
In a civil action following a personal data breach affecting a credit card bonus programme, the Regional Court (Landgericht) Frankfurt […]
Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
It could be the first death directly linked to a cybersecurity attack. Experts have been warning for years that this […]