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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 11:33:54 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,...
1/27/2025 9:23:22 AM January 2025 in Review: European Courts on Data Protection By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede The European Courts started into the year 2025 with a bang. In the second week of January 2025, they issued three highly relevant...
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...
12/19/2024 7:53:47 AM The Future of Privacy Litigation - back to the roots?! By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede At the end of the year, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) delivered one of the most significant rulings of 2024 on Art. 82 GDPR....
9/26/2024 7:37:10 AM Liability for missing cancellation button on third party website By Hannah von Wickede Johannes Berchtold Andy Splittgerber An e-commerce platform offering online subscriptions exclusively via the website of a partner company (“partner website”) must ensure...
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...
9/5/2024 10:18:47 AM Abusive Mass Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs): Referral to CJEU By Hannah von Wickede Johannes Berchtold Andy Splittgerber Mass data subject access requests (“DSARs”) for information under Article 15 of the GDPR have increasingly become a significant challenge...
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...
8/21/2024 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...
8/14/2024 4:25:17 PM Compensation Claims under the Digital Services Act By Hannah von Wickede Johannes Berchtold Andy Splittgerber The Digital Services Act ("DSA") entered into force six months ago and many companies are still adapting to the obligations following...
8/7/2024 11:44:28 AM New Case Law on Advertising with Online Reviews By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede Andy Splittgerber The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) recently clarified some of the requirements that the German Unfair Competition Act (UWG)...
7/31/2024 12:33:40 PM Explaining GDPR Mass Litigation in Germany By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede Andy Splittgerber Mass litigation for GDPR compensation claims have become a common legal challenge for many companies in Germany in recent years. You...
7/25/2024 9:17:59 AM How to stay ahead of the curve in privacy litigation: Introducing our new series on platform and privacy litigation By Hannah von Wickede Johannes Berchtold Andy Splittgerber We are excited to introduce our new series 'Tech Litigation News’ on platform and privacy litigation. As the European digital...