Philip Gaylord 
A December 2014 Berlin court ruling on an unsolicited account confirmation email was widely misread as an attack on double opt-in. Here is what it actually decided.
How the right to be forgotten works in practice in the EU: when search engines must delist results, how to apply to Google, and what to do if refused.
The German Gesetz gegen unseriöse Geschäftspraktiken, passed by the Bundestag in June 2013, raised cold-call fines and capped copyright warning fees. Here is what it did.
Since 2016 German consumer associations can act against data protection breaches under the UKlaG. A look at the 2014 draft, the final law and the GDPR era.