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The "Supply Chain Act": Overview and Classification

Category: product safety , product liability , contract law Industry: mobility, machine construction, consumer goods Author: Daniel Wuhrmann Date: 2020

Given prominent placement by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the more...

Sharing Outlook calendars? Only with the Staff Council's approval!

Category: cybersecurity , data protection , compliance Industry: mobility, consumer goods, machine construction, healthcare Date: 2020

Because sharing Outlook calendars with other employees may be used to monitor employees, co-determination by the Staff Council is required more...

New UN regulations for cybersecurity and software updates in the automotive industry

Category: cybersecurity , future law , product liability , product safety Industry: mobility, machine construction, railway Author: Daniel Wuhrmann , Thorsten Deeg , Stefan Hessel Date: 2020

The UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations seeks to address growing cybersecurity risks with the adoption of two new UN more...

EU Commission prepares revision of the NIS Directive

Category: cybersecurity , data protection Industry: mobility, consumer goods, machine construction, healthcare, railway Author: Philipp Reusch , Stefan Hessel Date: 2020

In addition to the IT Security Act 2.0, which is currently being prepared by the German government, new rules may soon be adopted at the European more...

Labor Court of Iserlohn: data breaches may lead to dissolution of the works council

Category: cybersecurity , data protection Industry: mobility, consumer goods, machine construction, healthcare, railway Author: Stefan Hessel Date: 2020

By Order of 14 January 2020 (Case. 2 BV 5/19), the Labor Court of Iserlohn ruled that violations of the GDPR could lead to dissolution of the works more...

Road map for the revision of Directive 2001/95/EC

Category: product safety Industry: machine construction, consumer goods Author: Philipp Reusch Date: 2020

The EU Commission publishes its road map for revision of the Directive on general product safety more...

The Liechtenstein Data Protection Authority describes the course of a data protection audit

Category: cybersecurity , data protection Industry: mobility, consumer goods, machine construction, healthcare, railway Author: Stefan Hessel Date: 2020

Controllers and processors typically have an interest in avoiding data protection audits, or at least ensuring that they go as smoothly as possible. more...

Germany: BGH issues decision on cookie consent based on CJEU Planet49 case

Category: data protection Industry: mobility, consumer goods, machine construction, healthcare Date: 2020

Dr. Carlo Piltz on the German Federal Court of Justice ('BGH') "decision on the validity of consent for placing cookies on users' end devices when more...

Out of the home and into the office: data protection and going back to work

Category: cybersecurity , data protection Industry: mobility, machine construction, consumer goods, healthcare Author: Stefan Hessel Date: 2020

The situation with coronavirus has improved somewhat and restrictions are now being lifted. But the lifting of these restrictions is creating new more...