Tag: Data protection Law

Last year, the ECJ ruled that numerous types of cookies must be expressly authorized by the user before they can be stored on the user's ...

For many companies, self-employed persons and freelancers, there is now or will soon be an obligation to record the contact data of all customers and ...

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) currently has to decide whether a breach by the operator of a social network of the obligation under data ...

I recently reported in this article that a data leak can be quite expensive if the injured party decides to claim damages under Article 82 ...

By decision of today, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig referred questions to the ECJ on the interpretation of Art. 23 para. 1(j) and (e) ...

1. preliminary remark For years, there has been a debate in Germany about whether schools can use Microsoft's Office 365 software in a privacy-compliant manner. ...

As of May 25, 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of individuals ...

The First Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible among other things for claims under the Unfair Competition Act, today ...

Brexit is likely to keep lawyers, authorities and courts busy for a long time to come. Just recently in this article I pointed out the ...

Currently, a chain letter is once again going through Facebook and ignorant people are jumping on the bandwagon like herd animals. The letter begins with: ...

Dear readers, I am currently looking for a trainee lawyer or a student who is interested in IT law and could write articles or blog ...

The possibility to include Facebook Like as a plugin, for example, has been controversial for a long time. This is especially true since Facebook also ...

More and more fines are slowly being imposed and the data protection officers are getting more and more serious. Now the Federal Commissioner for Data ...

An interesting verdict comes today from the Federal Court of Justice regarding the Network Enforcement Act. In the context of an appeal against a decision ...

What does data protection say about statistical tools? Are they allowed? And under what conditions? Is it enough to use anonymization options? I recently published ...

New referral procedure of the ECJ The ECJ will deal with interesting questions from the file-sharing sector in a referral procedure, which could also concern ...

The Federal Court of Justice has to decide whether, in the way a game is offered there, in the way in which a game is ...

The ECJ has just ruled on the subject of cookies in the Planet49 case(see this article). Because of this procedure and my mail, I have ...

Since a few weeks ago a client had approached me about a problem around customer reviews, today I would like to give a brief overview ...

The Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the operator of a company page on Facebook may be obliged to shut down his fan page if ...