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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

New Warning Letter Law: A new law proposed by the federal government aims to protect companies from unscrupulous warning letters issued by „warning letter squads“ and, in doing so, prevent the creation of shell companies established solely for the purpose of issuing warning letters. Federal Minister of Justice Katarina Barley (SPD) wants to strengthen fair

Data protection breach 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 breach by the supervisory authorities and that a data protection fine will be imposed. Fine is occupied.

Church data protection law constitutes a specific area of data protection law that, in addition to the GDPR is applied and is of considerable practical importance to numerous organizations. With the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) In May 2018, even the major churches had to

Free Data Protection Event: 2B Advice has been committed to fostering professional exchange within the data protection and Compliance-Community. One example of this is the support provided to the IAPP KnowledgeNet Rhine-Ruhr, a regional network of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP),