Lucas Blum

Germany: New government plans to centralize data protection supervision and reduce regulation for small and medium-sized companies

By Verena Grentzenberg, Lucas Blum & Luca Sawatzki on April 14, 2025

Posted in General Data Protection Regulation, Supervisory authority relations

On April 9, 2025, the coalition agreement of the future German Federal Government, consisting of the three German parties CDU, CSU and SPD, was published. The document entitled “Responsibility for Germany” contains several plans, including some that may fundamentally change the German data protection supervisory authority structure and that aim to ease the regulatory burden…

Germany: Judgment on Non-Material Damages for Loss of Control over Personal Data

By Verena Grentzenberg, Jan Pohle, Philipp Adelberg & Lucas Blum on November 19, 2024

Posted in EU privacy, General Data Protection Regulation

On November 18, 2024, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – “BGH”) made a (to date unpublished) judgment under the case number VI ZR 10/24 regarding claims for non-material damages pursuant to Art. 82 GDPR, due to the loss of control over personal data.

The judgment is based on a personal…