4/17/2025 6:19:05 PM New Market Surveillance Authority for Accessibility in Germany By Johannes Berchtold The State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt have announced the establishment of the “Market Surveillance Authority...
2/20/2024 10:42:03 AM Germany’s government plans to introduce a statutory ‘right to encryption’ for users of messaging and cloud storage services By Alexander Hardinghaus Philipp Süss Carsten Dobler The German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr – BMDV) has drawn up a new draft bill...
2/22/2023 5:25:56 PM CJEU rules on DPO conflicts of interest under the GDPR By Cynthia O'Donoghue Andy Splittgerber Florian Schwind Alexander Pierce +1 more... Show less The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued a judgment on the 9th of February 2023 (docket no. C-453/21), which addresses...
11/3/2020 9:37:39 PM Germany’s next steps in digitization: Finally, the new Interstate Treaty on Media has been ratified by all German federal states By Alexander Hardinghaus Philipp Süss Ramona Kimmich The Interstate Treaty on Media (Medienstaatsvertrag – MStV) has finally been ratified by all 16 German federal states and can now enter...
2/24/2020 1:34:50 PM First decision on qualification of Bitcoins made by German tax court By Martin Bünning On July 20, 2019 the German tax court for the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg published the first decision of a German tax court...