LG Berlin considers GDPR violations to be recalled

In data protection law, the question of whether the General Data Protection Regulation contains market conduct rules and whether infringements can therefore be warned by competitors is probably one of the most controversial issues on which the courts also disagree. You can read more about the dispute in this blog post and in this article. You can find out more about the SSL problems here.

The Berlin Regional Court has now joined the courts that are in favor of competition law relevance and thus agrees with the Würzburg Regional Court, among others. It is therefore quite a “lucky thing”, at least until the question does not finally have a supreme court decision. While the Regional Court of Bochum, the Landgericht Wiesbaden, the Landgericht Magdeburg (Regional Court of Magdeburg) reject the possibility of bringing an action, the OLG Hamburg and the OLG Munich did not see the GDPR as blocking the UWG.

In addition to the chaos of jurisprudence, there are also legislative initiatives, the future of which is unknown in time. Bavaria, for example, has submitted a draft amendment to Section 3a UWG, according to which this is to read in future:

“Provisions of Regulation (EU) 679/2016 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC […] and the rules implementing it are not covered by sentence 1.”

It is therefore still helpful to at least rudimentarily comply with data protection law. It would be better to seek full advice, as there have already been 75 fines imposed by the data protection officers of the federal states.

Author: Marian Härtel

Marian Härtel ist Rechtsanwalt und Fachanwalt für IT-Recht mit einer über 25-jährigen Erfahrung als Unternehmer und Berater in den Bereichen Games, E-Sport, Blockchain, SaaS und Künstliche Intelligenz. Seine Beratungsschwerpunkte umfassen neben dem IT-Recht insbesondere das Urheberrecht, Medienrecht sowie Wettbewerbsrecht. Er betreut schwerpunktmäßig Start-ups, Agenturen und Influencer, die er in strategischen Fragen, komplexen Vertragsangelegenheiten sowie bei Investitionsprojekten begleitet. Dabei zeichnet sich seine Beratung durch einen interdisziplinären Ansatz aus, der juristische Expertise und langjährige unternehmerische Erfahrung miteinander verbindet. Ziel seiner Tätigkeit ist stets, Mandanten praxisorientierte Lösungen anzubieten und rechtlich fundierte Unterstützung bei der Umsetzung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle zu gewährleisten.