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You'll find a german version here. The Council of Europe announced through a press release on the 7th of October 2019 that it had formally adopted new rules for the protection of whistle-blowers. With the adoption of the “Whistle-blower Directive” a [...]
The two-day conference “B2B Marketing Days” by marconomy took place in Würzburg from October 15-16 2019. The conference is a specialist’s conference for medium-sized companies discussing B2B specific marketing challenges, facilitate knowledge and Best [...]
On October 14, 2019, the German Conference of Data Protection Authorities (DSK) published a concept for determining fines in accordance with the GDPR. In some regards, this concept resembles the model of the Berlin Data Protection Authority which was [...]
Dear Readers, This is to update you on the latest news and developments in matters of data protection law. If you would like to be provided with more details, you may contact us via the commentary function. We will also link to our blog posts if [...]
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) issued two decisions on 7 October 2019 based on which it imposed two administrative fines amounting to 200,000 euros each to the Hellenic Telecommunications Provider, “OTE”. According to the decisions, [...]
On October 1st, the European Court of Justice handed down a ruling that could have a major impact on the design of the "cookie banners" widely used on the Internet. Although the European Court of Justice was not actually considering the classic "cookie [...]
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority has fined PriceWaterhouseCoopers Business Solutions SA 150,000.00 € for unlawful processing of employee data, after the Authority had conducted an ex officio investigation in response to a complaint. The Authority [...]
The data protection authority (DPA) of the German federal state of Hamburg recently opened administrative proceedings against Google. It relates to Google’s “Google Assistant” System, the natural language assistant behind the “Google Home” speaker, and tra [...]
