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Transparency vs. data protection - Commercial register contrary to data protection?

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 11, 2022 | Privacy

The Commercial Register has an online presence: www.handelsregister.de . Since the beginning of this month, all entries in the commercial register can be accessed here online free of charge and without registration. Among the data that can be retrieved here are also personal...

Red alert: Data privacy breach!

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 10, 2022 | Privacy

Dreaded by every company, but always topical: the data protection mishap. The great fear of a data protection breach often results from a lack of knowledge about how to deal with such a situation. Find out here what to do and how to...

Privacy glitch in spam folder

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 10, 2022 | Privacy

At first glance, the spam folder in the email client does not indicate a data protection breach. However, if e-mails that are supposed to be deleted are inadvertently marked as spam only, it can lead to a manual check by the e-mail provider and in the...

Threatening letter under data protection law - What to do?

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 9, 2022 | Privacy

Following the decision of the Munich Regional Court on compensation for pain and suffering due to non-material damage resulting from the use of Google Fonts on a website, an increasing number of threatening letters under data protection law can now be found. The authors send data protection...

Ban Tesla? - Data privacy and autonomous driving

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 4, 2022 | Privacy

Time and again, there is criticism of the amounts of data that, in particular, motor vehicles of the American brand Tesla record and store from their surroundings. Now an attempt has been made in Berlin and in Beidaihe (China) to ban Teslas in certain areas. What...

Chat control violates fundamental rights

by Tessa Lamken | Aug 3, 2022 | Privacy

European and German data protection experts criticize the so-called chat control. Above all, they say, it violates fundamental rights and represents an "unprovoked and comprehensive monitoring of private communication". Read more here about the critical voices that...