On October 11, 2018, the German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, “BSI”) published its annual Report on the State of IT Security in Germany 2018 (“Security Report”)....more
On August 15, 2018, the federal committee of the German supervisory authorities, also known as the Data Protection Conference (Datenschutzkonferenz,“DSK”), published on its website a joint list of processing operations...more
On July 5, 2017, the German parliament passed the new German federal data protection act (“FDPA”), setting the stage for the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) coming into force in Europe in May next year. The new...more
In March 2017, Germany’s minister of justice, Mr. Heiko Maas, released a new draft law “for the improvement of law enforcement in social networks” (Entwurf eines Gesetztes zur Verbesserung der Rechtsdurchsetzung in sozialen...more