Almost four years after the citizens of the United Kingdom have voted in favor of leaving the European Union in a referendum, Brexit is finally approaching on 31 January 2020. Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)...

So-called "data subjects", including consumers and employees of B2B business partners, have several rights under the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In practice, one of the most relevant of these is the right to access under Art. 15 GDPR...

Every processing of personal data requires a legal basis such as consent, legitimate interests or legal obligations. In October 2019, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”), an advisory body that consists of the data protection supervisory authorities...

A German real estate company has been fined 14.5 million Euro for infringing the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the data protection authority of Berlin, who publicly reported on this case...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires web service providers to implement technical and organizational requirements for data security when offering login areas for their users. German data protection supervisory....

Non-compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may lead to severe liability risks for companies inside and outside the European Union, stemming from claims by consumers, claims by competitors or business....

In the past months, European data protection supervisory authorities were pushing for opt-in consent as the standard model for using cookies that are not strictly technically necessary for the provision of a website...

GDPR rights aim to ensure transparency of data processing, and to enable individuals to have a say in which information on them is stored. Replies to related requests may contain sensitive information, if not a copy of all data retained...

Where processing of personal information is based on consent, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets quite a few conditions that must be met so that the user’s consent is regarded effective and lawful...