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The European Commission has adopted the adequacy decision for the data protection framework between the EU and the US. An adequacy decision is an instrument of the General Data Protection Regulation (...

Managing directors and board members and, where applicable, employees and data protection officers are personally liable in the event of data protection violations. Companies process personal data in...

Data transfer to the USA: New standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission do not provide comprehensive security We had already addressed the issue of “international data transfer” from the pers...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force since May 2018. At first, the data protection authorities in the EU countries were slow to impose fines. Companies were thus granted a g...

The protection of your data at certified-senders.org and summit.certified-senders.org I. General The Certified Senders Alliance is a service from eco – Association of the Internet Industry, Lichtstr...

7. Sanctions The GDPR is not a toothless tiger – even though it sometimes looks like one. It provides for various sanctions. 7.1 Overview  The GDPR provides various instruments for its enforcem...

6. Special aspects in other countries 6.1 Scope of application of the GDPR According to Art. 3 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the GDPR applies to all companies that have their r...

Where did this begin? At the end of 2019, the German data protection authority imposed the highest fine to date in Germany, amounting to almost 10 million Euro, on 1&1 Telecommunication SE. The r...

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data may only be transferred to a third country if an adequate level of protection is guaranteed in that country for the processing...

4. Processing by service providers If service providers are deployed to send mailings or for the storage and/or processing of the email advertisement, their integration must also be designed in a...