German DPA investigates WhatsApp Terms of Use
Urgency proceedings opened against Facebook in connection with the new WhatsApp Terms of Use.
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Bavarian DPA Declares Use E-mail Marketing Service Prohibited without Assessment and Supplementary Measures
Bavarian DPA declared the use of Mailchimp in Bavaria impermissible due to non-compliance with Schrems II mitigation steps in relation to the transfer of e-mail addresses to Mailchimp in the U.S.
Competition challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ of users sparks referral to Europe’s top court
A German court that’s considering Facebook’s appeal against a pioneering pro-privacy order by the country’s competition authority to stop combining user data without consent has said it will refer questions to Europe’s top court.
A New Day for GDPR Damages Claims in Germany?
Claims for non-material damages – have been relatively low. However, a more recent decision issued by the Federal Constitutional Court indicates courts may soon be willing to entertain higher damages claims.
Deutsche Wohnen fine now declared invalid by a German court
There has been a big bang in the data protection world in Berlin as the first and most spectacular GDPR fine in Germany has just been declared invalid.
Germany Publishes New Draft Rules for Cookies and Similar Technologies
On January 12, 2021, the German Ministry for the Economy and Energy released a new draft Law on Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy in Telecommunications and Telemedia (TTDSG).
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.
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