On November 5, 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information announced that it imposed a fine of €14.5 million on a major real estate company, which is the highest fine issued in Germany since the EU General Data Protection Regulation became applicable.
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German Data Protection Authorities Examine Proposal for GDPR Fining Model
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On September 17, 2019, the German Conference of Data Protection Authorities examined a proposal for calculating administrative fines under the GDPR.
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Advocate General Finds Cookie Consent Must Be Active and Separate
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On March 21, 2019, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued an Opinion in the Case C-673/17 of Planet49 GmbH v Bundesverband der Verbraucherzentralen und Verbraucherverbände – Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband e.V.
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European Commission Issues GDPR Infographic
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On January 25, 2019, the European Commission issued an infographic on compliance with and enforcement and awareness of the GDPR since it took force on May 25, 2018.
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BayLDA Publishes Review on Audits
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On November 7, 2018, the Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector issued a press release on the audits it has carried out in Bavaria since the entry into application of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
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Head of Austrian DPA Appointed Chair of Article 29 Working Party
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On February 7, 2018, representatives of European Data Protection Authorities met in Brussels to appoint Andrea Jelinek as the new leader of the current Article 29 Data Protection Working Party.
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Privacy and Information Security Law Blog’s Top 10 Posts of 2017
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As 2017 comes to a close, read our top 10 posts of the year.
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German Privacy Laws Intersect with Discovery in a Patent Case
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On November 8, 2017, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ordered German defendants in an ongoing patent suit to produce a particular database, despite its claims that such production would violate German privacy laws. …
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Advocate General Rejects Facebook’s Claim of Sole Irish Jurisdiction in EU
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On October 24, 2017, an opinion issued by the EU’s Advocate General Bot rejected Facebook’s assertion that its EU data processing activities fall solely under the jurisdiction of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. The opinion relates to the CJEU case C-210/16, under which the German courts sought to clarify whether the DPA in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein could take action against Facebook regarding its use of web tracking technologies on a German education provider’s fan page without first providing notice. …
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Hunton Privacy Team Publishes Several Chapters in International Comparative Legal Guide to Data Protection
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Hunton & Williams’ Global Privacy and Cybersecurity lawyers prepared several chapters in the recently released The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Data Protection 2017, including the opening chapter on “All Change for Data Protection: The European Data Protection Regulation.” This blog entry provides a link to access the relevant chapters.
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