Publications
Hamburg Data Protection Authority: Data protection-conforming use of Google Analytics
The Hamburg Data Protection Authority arrived at an agreement with Google on the data protection-conforming use of Google Analytics. This agreement had been expected, according to related statements. A protracted dispute about the use of Google Analytics appears to be resolved. In the following, read about what website operators will soon have take into account.
Data Protection in Turkey: Data exchange between Germany and Turkey
Thus far, there is no specific law in Turkey regarding data protection. However, even without a specific law, personal data are protected by constitutional and statutory provisions.
Data Protection in Dubai: The DIFC Data Protection Law
The following article examines the legal provisions on data protection in Dubai that are governed by the DIFC Data Protection Law 2007, DIFC Law No. 1 of 2007 (referred to in the following as “DPL-DIFC 07”), and explores the potential economic implications.
Global Data Protection: Strategy Instead of Compliance?
For many corporate managers, data protection law has so far largely been merely a marginal issue in which lawmakers have more or less imposed burdensome regulations on companies. But companies overlook the strategic relevance of data protection regulations.
Germany's Reluctance To Accept European Commission Decisions Concerning The Adequacy Of The Level Of Data Protection In Non-EU/EEA Countries
It is one of the basic mechanisms of the German Federal Data Protection Act (‘‘FDPA’’) to require a statutory permission or a declaration of consent for the collection, processing (which includes storing and transferring) and use of personal data. No permission is needed, however, for exchanging personal data with a data processor in Germany, the European Union or the European Economic Area (‘‘EU/EEA’’) and for having it carry out processing operations, it being understood that the parent company, a company of the same group of companies or an external service provider can be used as data processors. Should such a data processor be located outside the EU/EEA, the FDPA qualifies the exchange of personal data with the processor as a ‘‘normal’’ data transfer and the aforementioned rule applies again.
- Data protection: Who can be a Data Protection Officer?
- German privacy laws – a case of hyperdontia?
- Privacy and social networking
- Privacy law requirements for ranking lists
- Decision 2 BvR 902/06 of the German Constitutional Court: the end of email screening in the workplace?
- IT-security as a management obligation
- U.S. Data Protection According to Safe Harbor: Changes after Decision by German Regulators
- Safe Harbor and Free trade agreement in the wake of the data privacy scandal