Category Archives: Podcast EU-DSGVO

Podcast: The European Health Data Space (EHDS)

The EU’s data strategy creates a new area of law: data economy law. While data law has so far focused primarily on the protection of personal data and, more recently, the security of the data infrastructure, the new legal acts (Data Act, Data Governance Act and the sector-specific data rooms) are aimed primarily at the […]

Podcast: EU-US Data Privacy Framework

The EU Commission has issued an adequacy decision on the new data protection framework between the EU and the US. In this episode, research assistants Ole-Christian Tech and Klaus Palenberg look at the consequences of the decision and the content of the agreement with the US. In particular, the novelties compared to the previous agreements, […]

Podcast: Zurück zur Stechuhr?

After the decision of the Federal Labour Court in September 2022, the topic of recording working hours is going viral again. Are employers now obliged to record the working hours of their employees and, if so, how is this to be implemented in concrete terms? What will happen to trust-based working time models in the […]

Podcast: How fast do my employees work?

Employee data protection is a constant issue in the day-to-day operations of many companies. In its decision (Case No. 10 A 6199/20), the Administrative Court (VG) of Hanover dealt with the use of technologies by Amazon which allow the company to monitor the working speed of employees in its logistics centre. In doing so, the […]

Podcast: Right of access under Article 15 of the GDPR – The ECJ on the scope of the claim

  On 12 January 2023, the ECJ handed down a ruling on the scope of the data subject’s right of access. In this episode of “Weggeforscht”, Johannes Müller and Klaus Palenberg report on the decision, according to which a controller must specifically name all third parties to whom it discloses data. If the data subject […]

Podcast: Right of access under Article 15 GDPR – scope, third party data and practical pitfalls

The right to information pursuant to Article 15 of the GDPR standardises the central right to information of a data subject with regard to the processing of his or her personal data. The scope of the data subject’s right to information under Article 15 of the GDPR has recently been the subject of much discussion […]

Podcast: Rechtliche Fragen rund um Mastodon

Nachdem Elon Musk Twitter im Oktober 2022 übernommen hatte, kündigten viele Nutzer ihr Konto und wanderten ab zu anderen sozialen Netzwerken. Für viele Nutzer führt die Suche nach einem alternativen Microbloggingdienst direkt zu der dezentralen Plattform Mastodon. Mastodon ist Teil eines größeren Verbundes dezentraler Netzwerke, dem sogenannten Fediverse. In dieser Folge von „Weggeforscht“ erläutern die […]

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 […]

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 […]