The new Federal Data Protection Act, implementation of the GDPR in Germany, by Christian L. Geminn

See the final book of this conference : https://blogdroiteuropeen.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/national-adaptations-of-the-gdpr-final-version-27-february-1.pdf

Germany was the first Member State to pass a law on the implementation of the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679; in German: Datenschutz-Grundverordnung, DS-GVO or DSGVO) and on the adaption of national data protection law. The new “Bundesdatenschutzgesetz” (BDSG, Federal Data Protection Act) was officially published in July 2017 and has come into force on May 25^th 2018.

Contents :

I- Introduction

II- Data protection Law in Germany

III- The New Federal Data Protection Act

A- Structure

B- Scope of the Act

C. Opening clauses and regularoty mandates of the GDPR

D- Areas of particular interest

Data processing ofr employment-related purposes
video-surveillance
Supervisory authorities
Restrictions of the rights of the data subjects
Representation of data sujects
Data protection officers
processsing of special categories of personnal data
Scoring
Penal provisions and fines

IV- Conclusion

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Dr. jur. Christian L. Geminn is a senior researcher at Kassel University and Managing Director of the Project Group Constitutionally Compatible Technology Design (provet) at the Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG)

Suggested Citation: Geminn L. Christian, The new Federal Data Protection Act, implementation of the GDPR in Germany, e-conference on National Adaptations of the GDPR, Blogdroiteuropeen, June 2018, available at https://wp.me/p6OBGR-2Y1