After Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, many users cancelled their accounts and migrated to other social networks. For many users, the search for an alternative microblogging service leads directly to the decentralised platform Mastodon. Mastodon is part of a larger network of decentralised networks called Fediverse. In this episode of “Weggeforscht”, research… Read more »
Sammlung Podcast EU-DSGVO
May examinees be monitored online or must they be monitored online?
In the context of the Corona pandemic, e-exams, which had previously only been widely used abroad, spilled over into Germany. This made it possible for students to take exams from home comfortably and without the risk of infection. However, in order to maintain the equality of opportunity under examination law, which is already constitutional, monitoring… Read more »
Podcast: What about the protection of employee data? (Part 2)
There are many other legal disputes and open questions surrounding the topic of employee data protection. In the second part of our double episode on the protection of employee data, research assistants Johanna Voget and Johannes Müller provide an overview of practically relevant topics, such as the claim for damages under the GDPR in the… Read more »
What about the protection of employee data? (Part 1)
Employee data protection makes new headlines almost daily. Be it problems with the recording of working hours, the right to information or simply the requirements for the processing of employee data. Because the range of topics is so extensive, the Legal Research Unit at DFN is presenting a double series on the current status of… Read more »
Podcast: Civil servants also have private lives
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… Read more »
Podcast: Stop the finde roulette
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… Read more »
(Deutsch) Podcast: Darf ich Daten in die USA und Großbritannien übertragen?
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Podcast: What do fonts have to do with data protection?
The jungle of legal requirements when building a website is now becoming even more dense for website operators: In a ruling dated 20 January 2022 ( Case 3 O 17493/20), the Regional Court of Munich I decided that the use of dynamic fonts without a corresponding legal basis from the GDPR can lead to a… Read more »
(Deutsch) Podcast: Der Data Act – EU-Kommission schlägt Datengesetz vor
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J!Cast: ECJ on the legal standing of consumer associations under the GDPR
” width=”220″ height=”55″ /> In this new episode of the ITM Podcast, the two research assistants Owen Mc Grath and Klaus Palenberg discuss the ECJ ruling on the standing of consumer associations to sue for data protection infringements. The ECJ has ruled that even after the introduction of the GDPR, consumer associations can rely… Read more »