Could you safely say that your website is compliant with data protection regulations? Because anyone looking for data protection deficiencies on the Internet will quickly find what they are looking for. Everything is included, from the inadequate cookie banner to the poorly accessible data protection declaration. But what is the cause of this? Do companies not want to meet their legal obligations or do they not even know that they are doing something wrong? You can find out in our GDPR check!

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von Nadja-Maria

The judgment of the European Court of Justice, which determined the ineffectiveness of the Privacy Shield Agreement between the European Union and the USA (Schrems II), did not go unnoticed in the USA either. In response, the US Department of Commerce has now published a white paper on data protection risk analysis as part of data export to the USA.

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von Tobias

The Swedish fashion brand H&M is said to pay a fine of 35.3 million euros for spying on employees. Hundreds of employees at the service center in Nuremberg are said to have been monitored. The Hamburg commissioner for data protection, Johannes Caspar, justified the decree on Thursday. Read the blog article to learn more about the GDPR fine against H&M.

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von Nadja-Maria

The so-called “Schrems2” judgment of the ECJ, with which the US-EU Privacy Shield was overturned, is currently stirring up data protection officers and companies. In the video you can find out everything you currently need to know about the EU-US Privacy Shield. We’ll also tell you what to look out for in the company!

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von Rainer Aigner

It took a long time, but now it actually happened that the Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought the data transfer to the USA before the ECJ again. He was right again. The so-called “Schrems2” judgment of the ECJ, with which the US-EU Privacy Shield was overturned, is currently stirring up data protection officers and companies. In our blog article and video you will find out everything you currently need to know about EU-US privacy. We’ll also tell you what to look out for in the company!

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von Rainer Aigner

The fact that the ECJ overturned the EU-US Privacy Shield with its judgment has far-reaching consequences, especially for data transfer to the USA:

Affected are e.g. all apps, software programs and service providers with storage location USA or remote maintenance from USA!

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von Nadja-Maria

According to the General Data Protection Regulation, companies that are part of a group are not treated as uniformly responsible, but as independent group companies. There is therefore no group privilege. A separate justification is therefore required for each data transfer between the group companies, which must comply with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation.

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von Nadja-Maria

In another blog article we have already dealt with the basic and generally applicable conditions of the right to information according to Art. 15 GDPR. Today’s post and the accompanying video are dedicated to the right to information in a special situation – Art. 15 GDPR in employment.

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von Nadja-Maria

The General Data Protection Regulation not only lays down obligations for data processing companies, but also addresses persons affected by data processing directly and grants them extensive rights. When it comes to the right to information, there are important points to consider for companies. In this blog article and the accompanying video you will find out what you have to consider when it comes to the right to information under Art. 15 GDPR.

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von Tobias

Data errors should cost the AOK Baden-Württemberg a fine of 1.2 million euros.

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