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LAG Düsseldorf: Hintergrund-Recherchen über Bewerber als Teil des üblichen Bewerbungsprozesses? Wie es in dem Zusammenhang zu einem Schadensersatzanspruch kommen kann. Ein Arbeitgeber muss einem Bewerber 1.000 EUR als...more
Private Nutzung von Internet und E-Mail am Arbeitsplatz: Endlich mehr Sicherheit für Arbeitgeber? Nach bisheriger Auffassung der deutschen Datenschutzbehörden ist der Arbeitgeber bei gestatteter Privatnutzung von...more
Germany evaluates AI-specific legislation needs and actively engages in international initiatives. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (the “AI Regulations”) Currently, with the exception of minor references to AI...more
Warum ist das relevant? Bei Verstößen gegen das Datenschutzrecht drohen Unternehmen insbesondere zwei Konsequenzen: Maßnahmen der Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden inkl. möglicher DSGVO-Geldbußen nach Art. 83 DSGVO sowie...more
Both the EU and Germany are taking significant steps to accelerate digitalization in the health sector and facilitate the exchange and use of health data for research and innovation purposes. They aim to improve...more
Die europäischen Datenschutzbehörden haben eine koordinierte Prüfaktion mit Fokus auf das Auskunftsrecht gem. Art. 15 DSGVO gestartet. Dabei handelt es sich um eines der in der Praxis bedeutsamsten Datenschutzrechte, gerade...more
Warum ist das relevant? Die bisherige deutsche Rechtslage ging davon aus, dass die bloße Feststellung eines Datenschutzverstoßes durch ein Unternehmen für die Verhängung einer Geldbuße nicht ausreichend war. Vielmehr musste...more
Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more
Für alle Personalverantwortlichen gibt es spannende Neuigkeiten aus dem Bereich Beschäftigtendatenschutz: Aufgrund einer Entscheidung des EuGH (Urteil vom 30. März 2023, C 34/21) könnte § 26 BDSG, die zentrale deutsche Norm...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Updata! Updata is an international report produced by Eversheds Sutherland’s dedicated Privacy and Cybersecurity team – it provides you with a compilation of key privacy and cybersecurity...more
First we take Sacramento, then we take Berlin: How do US data protection laws affect how you do business. The webinar is aimed at in-house or outside counsel, as well as data protection and compliance officers. In this...more
Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 14 (July 23, 2020) - Germany’s top court reversed a decision by an appeals court, stating that there is no doubt that Facebook enjoys a dominant position in the market and also no...more
FBI Issues Updated Ransomware Guidance - A recent report from New Zealand-based cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has revealed the extent to which ransomware is being used in cyberattacks in the United States. The first 9 months...more
In der Praxis sieht man derzeit eine steigende Anzahl von Fällen, in denen Verbraucher die finanzielle Erstattung von Eingriffen in das Persönlichkeitsrecht einfordern. Nach Art. 83 Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) sehen...more
The Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") has declared that pre-ticked checkboxes cannot be used to gain valid consent from individuals, with respect to the dropping and reading of cookies. This decision further emphasises the...more
In this month's edition, we examine a judge's ruling allowing an investor suit against Equifax, the dismissal of a class action against the insurer CareFirst and President Donald Trump's launch of a federal artificial...more
On the heels of the European Union's General Data Protection law, which went into effect in May 2018, California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")—the result of an 11th-hour compromise between...more
Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection...more
The German Ministry of Interior affairs has published an English translation of the new Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG). On 27 April 2017 the German Parliament passed the BDSG in order to make use...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine new privacy laws in Germany, an FTC settlement with an alleged consumer loan company over unfair and deceptive practices, the dismissal of a data...more
This post provides an update as to the current status of official GDPR-related guidance. With a little under a year remaining until the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable, companies...more
On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more
The answer in Germany is “yes.” To understand why, you have to understand the principle of “co-liability” or Störerhaftung. Under the principle of co-liability, operators of an open WiFi network can be held liable for the...more
In this edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the impact of Brexit on EU data protection, court rulings on cyber insurance policy exclusions and coverage gaps, recent statements from the FTC and the...more