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4/16/2025 7:09:13 AM New Authority for Accessibility Surveillance Established By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede The State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) have announced the establishment of the "Market Surveillance...
3/27/2025 2:53:33 PM 400 Euro GDPR Compensation: Appeal in Bindl vs. Commission Case to ECJ By Johannes Berchtold Friederike Wilde-Detmering Hannah von Wickede In the legal dispute Bindl vs. the European Commission (T-354/22), the plaintiff announced on his website that both he and the European...
3/19/2025 12:15:16 PM 1.500 EUR GDPR fine against Employee for unlawful Database Query By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede In a recent ruling, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (HRC) has set an interesting precedent in the realm of data protection and...
3/12/2025 12:45:20 PM Can Data Subjects access the DPA between a Controller and a Processor? By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede The question of whether data subjects can access the data processing agreement (DPA) between a Controller and a Processor frequently...
3/5/2025 11:10:59 PM EU Guidelines on definition of "AI system" By Andy Splittgerber The European Commission (EC) has recently issued guidelines (“Guidelines”) on the definition of an AI system, as mandated by Article...
3/5/2025 11:33:54 AM February 2025 in Review: Courts on Data Protection – Damages, Transparency & More By Johannes Berchtold Patricia Geyler The European and German courts kicked off February with a series of significant rulings on data protection matters. In February 2025,...
1/30/2025 5:00:28 PM NIS2 implementation in Germany failed By Johannes Berchtold Christian Leuthner The efforts to implement the NIS2 Directive (NIS2) and the CER Directive (CER) have finally failed. Representatives from the German...
1/27/2025 3:50:36 PM Immaterial damages in EU-data protection cases - Where is this going? By Andy Splittgerber After various ECJ decisions (e.g. January 25, 2024 - C-687/21) and the German Federal Court of Justice decision (decision of November 18,...
1/7/2025 1:09:28 PM HRC Frankfurt a. M.: Provision of a Self-Service Tool Meets the Right to Access By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede Introduction Providing information under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents significant technical and...
11/19/2024 2:20:47 PM Understanding the Scope of the e-Evidence Regulation and Directive By Johannes Berchtold In my last post, I provided a brief overview of the e-Evidence Regulation and Directive (collectively referred to as the “e-Evidence...
10/8/2024 3:33:15 PM Podcast: Navigating AI governance: Key insights for the EU and US By Andy Splittgerber Co-authored by Monique N. Bhargava , Cynthia O'Donoghue and Andy Splittgerber (me) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming...
9/16/2024 10:22:52 AM Navigating the Intersections of Data Protection and Competition Laws By Johannes Berchtold Nadja Rünzel The relation between competition and data protection laws is becoming increasingly crucial as digitalization progresses. Both national...
8/30/2024 12:04:20 PM Status update on the public enforcement of the Digital Services Act By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede Andy Splittgerber The Digital Services Act (DSA) is a landmark regulation that aims to create a safer and more accountable online environment in the EU. It...
8/27/2024 12:55:11 PM The e-Evidence Regulation: A New EU Legal Framework for cross-border access to Electronic Evidence By Johannes Berchtold In a little under two years from now, the Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 (e-Evidence Regulation) will come into effect. Together with the...
8/21/2024 9:24:28 AM Regional Court of Lübeck: www.haveibeenpwned.com is not sufficient evidence By Hannah von Wickede Johannes Berchtold Andy Splittgerber In privacy litigation, particularly in mass actions related to data scraping, plaintiffs often face the challenge of proving that they...
6/14/2024 11:56:48 AM FuelEU Friday – A new horizon By Antonia Panayides Authored by Antonia Panayides and Alexander Drury. Welcome to the final FuelEU Friday post in our series examining the Regulation. We...