The Privacy Icons association launched the Privacy Icons today. They are pictograms that complement privacy statements and are thus intended to increase transparency. Responsible parties can each per topic – type of data, source, special processing such as profiling, disclosure to third parties,
France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, upheld the CNIL’s fine against Google on June 19, 2020 (January 21, 2019, EUR 50 million). The Conseil d’Etat first confirms that Google LLC does not have a principal place of business in the EU or, at the time
The Data Protection Commissioner of the State of Lower Saxony has published FAQ on the information requirements according to Art. 13 and 14 GDPR. The following points, among others, are noteworthy: For the indication of the responsible person it seems to be necessary, not (only) the name of the company,
The Saxon data protection commissioner has published his activity report for the years 2017 and 2018. Among other things, it states the following: Property managers are not order processors of the homeowners, but independent responsible parties. In any case, the use of a dashcam is not in the legitimate interest,
On Dec. 2, 2019, the Trier Administrative Court, in a decision not available to the public (7 L 4487/19.TR), held that when a file was created, a public authority was not required to inform the data subject under Article 13 GDPR because the data subject’s file was
On November 6, 2019, the Conference of Independent Data Protection Authorities of the Federation and the Länder (Data Protection Conference, DSK) adopted a report on the experiences with the application of the GDPR. Among other things, the DSK comes to the following conclusions – which are not conclusive
The BGer protected the opinion of the Supreme Court and previously the Labor Court of Zurich that settlement discussions conducted in civil proceedings are not subject to the principle of judicial publicity because they are not part of the judicial activity of the court. A journalist was therefore
In its ruling 6B_1188/2018 of September 26, 2019, the Federal Supreme Court commented on the controversial question under which circumstances private recordings from dashcam cameras can be used in criminal proceedings. The District Court of Bülach had affirmed the usability in the present case, as did the Higher Court of Zurich. The BGer
In its judgment of October 1, 2019 (judgment in Case C‑673/17, Planet49), the ECJ ruled that pre-set checkboxes that the user must uncheck to refuse consent do not meet the requirement of consent to the use of cookies for advertising purposes