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Employee Data Protection Act by R. Olschewski The handling of certificates of incapacity for work in companies poses particular challenges for companies and data protection officers due to the special sensitivity of the information. As the issuing body, i.e. the (specialist) doctor, is identifiable, it may be possible to draw conclusions about the

Time's Up for Turkey In Turkey, intensive work is underway to implement the Turkish Data Protection Act, as companies above a certain size and turnover must register their data processing activities in the online registration system (VERBIS) by the end of September. The Turkish data protection supervisory authority

Data protection scandal: law not observed Austrian Post was sentenced to pay damages due to unauthorized data processing. Following the data scandal uncovered by an Austrian investigative journal in January 2019, the first judgment has now been issued against Austrian Post. The regional court

Responsibility for the operation of Facebook fan pages In a clarifying ruling, the Federal Administrative Court has further defined the responsibility for the operation of Facebook fan pages. The pending proceedings concerned an administrative act of the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) against the operator

Data transmission for "I am not a robot" CAPTCHA is a variant of the Turing test to determine whether a visitor to a web application is a real person. The principle of CAPTCHA is to set the ideal task that is easy for humans to solve.

New law on cease-and-desist letters New law from the German government is intended to protect companies from dubious cease-and-desist letters from "cease-and-desist teams" and thus also prevent the establishment of bogus companies set up solely for the purpose of issuing cease-and-desist letters. The Federal Minister of Justice, Katarina Barley (SPD), would like to strengthen the fair

Data protection violations with email distribution lists by A. Navidy / J. Baeck If an open distribution list is used to send emails in a commercial environment, there is a risk that this will be considered a data protection violation by the supervisory authorities and subject to a fine.

Article 91 GDPR by C. Dorner The two major churches in Germany - the Protestant Church and the Roman Catholic Church - have reformed their data protection laws and adapted them to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with almost no fanfare. The requirement

Free data protection event by D. Zier The second meeting of the IAPP KnowledgeNet Chapter Rhine-Ruhr was organized by 2B Advice in Bonn. KnowledgeNet Chapters are regional network meetings of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the worldwide professional association of data protection experts. KnowledgeNet Chapters