Data protection Law

The use of advertising cookies, especially across websites, quickly constitutes a violation of the GDPR and can lead to warnings....

In proceedings against two defendants - a 53-year-old lawyer based in Berlin and his 41-year-old client, the alleged representative of...

Introduction The Digital Service Act is a much-discussed topic. It has many implications for businesses and consumers that need to...

The ECJ, on the basis of a reference for a preliminary ruling under Art. 98 para. 1 of the Rules...

Will the European Commission's new adequacy decision finally promote transatlantic data transfers between the U.S. and the EU? On 13/12/2022,...

Blockchain and the GDPR - what's the connection? A blockchain is a decentralized database that allows transactions to be tracked...

The operator of a fan page maintained on Facebook may be required to shut down its fan page if the...

In line with my article today regarding Cloudflare(see here), due to a recent decision by the Bavarian State Office for...

In a decision dated October 29, 2020, the Regional Court of Cologne made an interesting decision on the subject of...

Many consumers might be annoyed by the cookie banners on any websites. As a consumer, I can well understand this...

The Ninth Chamber for Administrative Fines of the Bonn Regional Court today ruled that the fine imposed by the Federal...

The issue of whether US SaaS providers can be used permissibly or whether products such as Jira, Zendesk, various CRM...

The situation Berlin and data protection are currently not the best of friends, and the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection...

After the German data protection authorities published a guidance document last year, the Planet49 case should now be known to...

A draft bill for the Telecommunications Telemedia Data Protection Act, or TTDSG for short, is currently being circulated. According to...

The BGH has ruled in two cases, rejecting the delisting request in one case (confirming the first two instances) and...

Earlier this year, I already warned about Brexit and data protection in this article. However, that was before the UK's...

The General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) stipulates that personal data may in principle only be transferred to a third country if...

In its judgment of July 16, 2020 (Case C311/18), the European Court of Justice declared the European Commission's Decision 2016/1250...

An external data protection officer is a commercial entrepreneur, even if he also works as a lawyer. As the Federal...