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GDPR Article 15 When was the last time a data subject asked you to disclose personal data processed by you? More and more frequently, data subjects are aware that they are being General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been granted new rights to

Successful Fire Suppression Plan 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: Handling certificates of incapacity for work within a company poses particular challenges for companies and data protection officers due to the highly sensitive nature of the information. Since the issuing authority—that is, the (specialist) physician—is identifiable, it may be possible to draw conclusions about the

Time’s Up for Turkey: Intensive work is underway in Turkey to implement the Turkish Data Protection Act, as companies above a certain size and revenue threshold must register their data processing activities in the online registration system (VERBIS) by the end of September. The Turkish Data Protection Authority

Data Protection Scandal: Law Violated Austrian Post was ordered to pay damages for unlawful data processing. Following the data scandal uncovered in January 2019 by an Austrian investigative journalist, the first ruling against Austrian Post has now been handed down. The Regional Court

Liability for Operating Facebook Fan Pages In a clarifying ruling, the Federal Administrative Court further defined liability for operating Facebook fan pages. The pending case concerned an administrative act by the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD) against the operator

Data Transmission The “I’m not a robot” CAPTCHA is a variation of the Turing test designed to determine whether a visitor to a web application is a real person. The principle behind CAPTCHA is to present a task that is easy for humans