5/16/2024 2:56:51 PM Personal Jurisdiction Doctrine Shows Teeth as First Circuit Dismisses Class Action Wiretapping Claim By Gerard Stegmaier Mark Quist The First Circuit Court of appeals has affirmed that specific personal jurisdiction must be based on defendants’ intentional conduct. In...
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...
5/16/2022 3:09:44 PM Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport launches consultation on app security By Sarah O'Brien Yunzhe Zhang Cynthia O'Donoghue On 4 May 2022, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) launched a consultation (available here) to request views from...
2/8/2022 4:29:25 PM Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court provides guidance for assessing claims against hate speech on social media By Philipp Süss Sebastian Bitter Alexander Hardinghaus In a recent decision of December 19, 2021, case no. 1 BvR 1073/20 (published with an official press release dated February 2, 2022), the...
7/15/2020 7:50:31 PM Get your Update on IT & Data Protection Law in our Newsletter (Summer 2020 Edition) By Andy Splittgerber Sven Schonhofen Arne Senger The Summer 2020 Edition of the quarterly IT & Data Protection Newsletter by Reed Smith Germany has just been released: English version...