Tag: Privacy

Introduction The digitization of larger sectors encounters organizational, technical and legal problems. The potential applications of blockchain technology offer a unified solution in almost all ...

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

The First Civil Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice, which is responsible for competition law among other things, currently has to rule on ...

Behind the term metaverse is a digital world controlled, shaped and lived by real individuals. What sounds to many like the stuff of a science ...

Editorial work on the September issue of SpoPrax - Sportrecht und E-Sportrecht in der Praxis has been completed. I too have contributed an interesting article ...

Today I became aware of a decision of the Berlin Regional Court that obligated a sender of a confirmation e-mail to cease and desist. The ...

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

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

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

The issue of whether US SaaS providers can be used permissibly or whether products such as Jira, Zendesk, various CRM systems and others do not ...

In a decision dated October 29, 2020, the Regional Court of Cologne made an interesting decision on the subject of cookies 1. the setting of ...

Today, the new "Law on Strengthening Fair Competition" came into force, but in the opinion of many colleagues, it does not deserve its name, as ...

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 ...

The Munich Higher Regional Court ruled that Facebook was entitled to prohibit the use of pseudonyms and justified this primarily as follows In view of ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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