Germany: Privacy Protection

News about Trump's inauguration and the first laws he has enacted are currently piling up.

Do data transfers to the USA have a price tag of 400 EUR/per person since the latest EC ruling? The good news is first of all: No, not automatically.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the Federal Ministry of Justice recently published the draft bill for a law to implement the European Regulation on the implementation of the Regulation on the protection of personal data.

With ChatGPT at the latest, the triumph of various tools equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) has reached the general public.

In the case at hand, the employer terminated the employment of one of his employees after obtaining information from a concealed investigation into private conversations conducted by the employee...

On 10 July 2023, the EU Commission decided that the EU-US Data Privacy Framework ("DPF") ensures an adequate level of protection for transfers of personal data from the EU and the EEA to the US.

The legislative process to enact an ePrivacy Regulation has been going on for a while: a first draft was introduced by the European Commission on 10 January 2017.

The GDPR has a very broad scope of application; companies doing business within the EU will often be subject to the GDPR, even if they have no establishments in the EU.

The data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany imposed a €35 million fine on H&M for processing employees' personal data in violation of the GDPR.