Germany

September 6, 2019

Bavarian DPA investigates Blood Donation Service for website tracking

The Bavarian Data Protection Authority (BayLDA) is currently scrutinising the website of the blood donation service of the Bavarian Red […]

September 4, 2019

On June 27, 2019, the High Court of Frankfurt decided that a consent for data processing tied to a consent […]

September 2, 2019

In its recent decision of 11 June 2019, the Dresden Court of Appeals had to decide on claims for damages […]

August 28, 2019

Facebook has succeeded in blocking the order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it […]

August 9, 2019

The Supervisory Authority of Hesse region stated that the term “copy” in Art 15 GDPR should not be understood literally […]

August 2, 2019

Based on recordings from whistleblowers, the media recently reported that Google’s Home Speech Assistant was used to evaluate acoustic recordings […]

July 15, 2019

The German state of Hesse has ruled it’s illegal for its schools to use Office 365 after years of debate […]

July 4, 2019

German authorities have fined Facebook 2 million euros for under-reporting complaints about illegal content on its social media platform in […]

July 4, 2019

On 28 June 2019, the German Bundestag passed the 2nd German Data Protection Act (“2nd DSAnpUG”) which will amongst other […]

June 6, 2019

Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations […]

May 21, 2019

German regional data protection authorities have imposed fines in 75 cases totalling EUR 449,0000 for breaches of the European General […]

May 15, 2019

Google has revealed plans to open an engineering centre in Munich as part of the tech giant’s bid to take […]