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Is Dropbox actually GDPR-compliant? I In the last part of our series on cloud services, third-country transfers and data protection, we take a look at the provider Dropbox. This is also a US company, which is why standard contractual clauses are concluded before the first use and supplementary

Data protection in company sales Is data protection important in M&A transactions? Or is it "nice to have" and can be neglected in favor of "hard" business facts? These questions can be answered quickly. Legally compliant data protection is definitely a business factor. In the event of violations

Are Amazon servers GDPR-compliant? Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular. The dominant providers in this market are all based in the USA, including Amazon Web Services (AWS). If personal data is transferred from German and European companies to the USA, this requires

Google Drive and GDPR Google Drive is one of the best-known file hosting services. Google Drive enables its users to save documents in the cloud, share files and edit documents together. Google Drive includes Google Docs,

Data protection and security at cloud providers Cloud and data protection after "Schrems II"; do they still go together? Yes, if certain rules are observed, this is still possible. This article outlines exactly what needs to be considered in the area of "data protection cloud providers"

Control of personal data The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) grants data subjects a number of rights so that they can exercise control over the processing of their personal data and thus over their personal rights protected by fundamental rights. These rights

What must a data protection officer (DPO) be able to do? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force a few years ago. As part of this law, many new regulations were introduced, including those requiring the appointment of a data protection officer (DPO) by the company.

Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (GDD) e.V. The annual data protection conference (45th DAFTA) of the Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (GDD) e.V. took place on November 18, 2021. This year, the conference, which was once again held digitally due to the pandemic, was once again able to impress with its

Information for our customers For a week now, the web has known hardly any other topic than the security vulnerability in log4J. Log4j is a framework for logging application messages in Java and a de facto standard. On December 10, 2021