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Successful Deletion concept in companies With the GDPR is the right to Deletion the Right to be forgotten has been added. This means that, in accordance with Article 17 GDPR From a legal point of view, there is no difference between the right to Deletion and the

GDPR imposes fines to date As 2019 draws to a close, it remains to be noted that momentum in fines for breaches of the GDPR has increased. Since the introduction of the GDPR in May 2018, the number of notifications about

What the CJEU AG's new opinion means for international data transfers On Thursday, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered his opinion on data transfers in the so-called "Schrems II" legal case published. Why are international

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