CJEU in Breyer: Dynamic IP addresses will (very?) often be personal data and German Law is too restrictive! Okay but how shall we care about voluntary and systematic retention of logs?

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon • 4 Comments

And here is delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) another landmark judgment: C‑582/14 Breyer v Bundesrepublik Deutschland concerning the proper characterisation of IP addresses and the compatibility of German national law with Article 7(f) of the Data Protection Directive (DPD). The judgement is not available in English yet, but … Continue reading →

anonymisation / General Data Protection Regulation / Personal data

A German view of the Council’s proposed General Data Protection Regulation: let’s try one more time… by the way what do we do with Browser-Generated Information?

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon • 1 Comment

The Council of the European Union released its version of the Proposed Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation or ‘GDPR’) on 11 June 2015, as mentioned by … Continue reading →