Germany, EU, IP Addresses

European Digital Compliance: Key Digital Regulation & Compliance Developments - July 2024

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 7/26/2024

To help organizations stay on top of the main developments in European digital compliance, Morrison Foerster’s European Digital Regulatory Compliance team reports on some of the main topical digital regulatory and compliance...more

You Use A US-based Sub Processor, You Lose, German Court says

Fox Rothschild LLP on 12/9/2021

If you use a U.S.-based sub processor (even for data processed in the EU), you lose, the German administrative court of Wiesbaden said in an interim decision. No transfer. No worries. TIA anyway...more

EU Court Rules that Dynamic IP Addresses are Personal Data…Sometimes

Proskauer on Privacy on 11/9/2016

On October 19, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that dynamic IP addresses may qualify as “personal data” under EU privacy law. As we covered here on the blog a few months ago, this decision is...more

EU Top Court Rules IP Addresses Maybe Protected Personal Data

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 10/25/2016

In a decision that could have significant impact for online companies that have European operations, the European Union’s (EU) top court ruled that Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses) could, under certain...more

ECJ Declares IP Addresses are Personal Data

Alston & Bird on 10/20/2016

Today, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its long-awaited decision in Breyer v. Germany. Breyer addresses the question of whether IP addresses are “personal data” for purposes of EU data protection law. As is...more

Are Dynamic IP Addresses Personal Data? A Primer

Proskauer on Privacy on 6/23/2016

Last month, one of the Advocate Generals (“AG”) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, issued an opinion suggesting that dynamic IP addresses should be recognized as “personal...more