Tag: Sanction

What was it about? In the world of competition law, the cease and desist letter is a key tool for preventing repeat infringements. It serves ...

Anyone who intensively exchanges information with numerous other examinees via a messenger chat group during the entire processing time of an online exam can be ...

What is it all about? Tomorrow, the Federal Court of Justice wants to clarify an interesting question that could be particularly exciting in light of ...

Introduction The Artificial Intelligence Act is a proposal for a European law on artificial intelligence (AI) - the first law. This is to ensure that ...

What is BaFin? BaFin is the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and is the German supervisory authority for credit institutions, insurance companies, financial service providers and ...

The German government has presented a bill to strengthen consumer protection in competition and trade law. This is intended to bring German law into line ...

One of the biggest topics here on the blog is certainly the question of when influencers, streamers, etc. have to label advertising. There may soon ...

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

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

On July 3, 2020, the Bundesrat approved the Act to Combat Right-Wing Extremism and Hate Crime on the Internet, which the Bundestag had passed on ...

In a landmark decision, the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (OLG) has declared the monitoring of stationary traffic by "private service providers" to ...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and will be published here in German and in an adapted version after agreement ...

My office is as digital as it gets, I am fully digitally accessible and overwhelmingly my clients are dealing with digital content. And yet, I ...

For my original post, see here. Background The European Commission has fined Valve, the owner of the online PC gaming platform "Steam," and five publishers ...

The problem So-called toxic behaviour is of course also a big problem in esports. But how is the whole thing to be assessed under civil ...

GDPR vs. Archiving Obligations In recent weeks, a new discussion has flared up around one of the numerous legal issues in the GDPR. As if ...

The following article was originally written by Andrea Rizzi from www.insightlegal.it and is published here in German and in an adapted version by arrangement. The ...

In a case I represent, the District Court of Neukölln has ruled that an account in the World of Warcraft game can only be blocked ...

In principle, the question of whether a statement should be punished as an insult or protected by freedom of expression must be decided by means ...

Since I again advised a client last week on the subject of data protection in his online shop, the question of admonisherability also arose. I ...