The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has dealt with the question in an appeal procedure whether the victim of an alleged infringement of personality rights can be compensated by a [...]
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The Rhineland-Palatinate State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (LfDI) has imposed a final fine on a hospital in Rhineland-Palatinate in [...]
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The Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) had to deal with a constitutional complaint directed against a civil law decision of the Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH). [...]
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On Nov. 14, 2019, the regulatory authorities of Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia, Bavaria and the [...]
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On October 30, 2019, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information issued a fine notice against Deutsche Wohnen SE in [...]
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Electronics market does not have to point out security vulnerabilities and missing updates of the Android operating system An electronics market does not have to point out security vulnerabilities and missing [...]
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