At the beginning of August, the ECJ had to rule on a Lithuanian law that required public employees to disclose private information. The ruling also has implications in Germany. Therefore, in this episode, research assistants Klaus Palenberg and Owen Mc Grath discuss the extent to which this data was allowed to be published on government […]
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Sep
Sep
The European Data Protection Board (EDSA) has published long-awaited guidelines to help national supervisory authorities impose uniform fines for data protection breaches. The background to these guidelines is the wide scope that the GDPR gives supervisory authorities in imposing fines. This can lead to large differences in the possible level of fines. In this episode […]
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Aug
Aug
At the beginning of June 2022, the Federal Supreme Court (BGH) decided, contrary to its previous case law, to what extent platforms such as YouTube can be liable for copyright infringements by their users. In the run-up to this decision, the BGH had submitted several questions on platform liability to the Court of Justice of […]
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Jun
Jun
Der Dschungel der rechtlichen Vorgaben beim Aufbau einer Webseite wird für Webseitenbetreibende jetzt noch dichter: Das Landgericht München I hat in einem Urteil vom 20. Januar 2022 (Az.: 3 O 17493/20) entschieden, dass die Verwendung von dynamischen Fonts ohne entsprechende Rechtsgrundlage aus der DSGVO zu einem Schadensersatzanspruch der betroffenen Person führen kann. Anhand dieses Urteils […]
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May
May
After politically contentious negotiations, the EU Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers agreed on final versions of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) in March and April 2022. The DMA is intended to regulate large online platforms and open them up to competition. The DSA serves, among other things, […]
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Mar
Mar
In the new episode of the ITM Podcast, research assistants Justin Rennert and Owen Mc Grath discuss the hack of cell phones from the provider EncroChat. Because of its offer of anonymous and encrypted use, EncroChat’s cell phones and chat programs were particularly popular in the criminal milieu across Europe. French investigative authorities had already […]
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Feb
Feb
In this new episode of the ITM Podcast, research assistants Owen Mc Grath and Nicolas John talk about the right of access for data subjects as set out in Article 15 of the GDPR and the possibility for data controllers to restrict or refuse access. With the help of the central data subject right of […]
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Jan
Jan
In dieser neuen Folge des ITM-Podcasts spricht unser wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Justin Rennert mit Coco Aro über das armenische Urheberrecht. Coco, ein Münsteraner Gymnasiast, hat am ITM in den vergangenen zwei Wochen ein Schülerpraktikum absolviert. Er hat armenische Wurzeln und beherrscht die armenische Sprache. Aus diesem Grund hat er sich für seine Zeit am ITM das […]
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Oct
Oct
In einer neuen Ausgabe des ITM-Podcasts („J!Cast“) sprechen die Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter Justin Rennert und Julian Große-Ophoff über das jüngst in Kraft getretene Urheberrechts-Diensteanbieter-Gesetz (UrhDaG). Das UrhDaG stellt klar, dass Plattformen im Grundsatz für Urheberrechtsverletzungen haften – die praktische Bedeutung für jeden Internetnutzer ist immens. Unsere Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter erklären in der neuen Podcast-Ausgabe nicht nur die […]
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Sep
Sep
” width=”220″ height=”55″ /> In this episode of the J!Cast, the Swiss guest researcher Simon Henseler (University of Zurich) and the research assistant Nicolas John (ITM Münster) talk about the upcoming new data protection law in Switzerland and examine the differences and similarities of the law with the European GDPR. Simon Henseler also explains the […]
