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    28.08.2025

    Privacy Ticker August 2025

    The August issue of our Privacy Ticker deals with the changes in legislation, the current case law, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions and opinions.

    Topics in this issue are:

    Case Law

    • Federal Court of Justice denies damages for hypothetical risks
    • Higher Regional Court Schleswig-Holstein on Meta’s AI training

    Regulatory Investigations and Enforcement Actions

    • Poland: EUR 3.96 million fine against McDonald’s due to data leak
    • Spain: EUR 250,000 fine for unauthorized collection of fingerprints and missing information
    • Spain: fine of EUR 200,000 against bank for excessive storage

    Opinions

    • BfDI on the use of social networks by the federal administration
    • EU Commission uses Microsoft 365 in compliance with data protection law
    • BSI & ANSSI on design principles for LLM-based systems with zero trust

    The Privacy Ticker is available under this link or in the download area below.

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    Dusseldorf
    Christian Frederik Döpke
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    Fabian Eckstein
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    Mirjam Kaiser
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    Susanne Klein
    Rechtsanwältin, LL.M., Licensed Specialist for Information Technology Law, external data protection officer (certified by TÜV Nord)
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    Jason Komninos
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    Lennart Kriebel
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    Dr Birgit Münchbach
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    Mathias Zimmer-Goertz
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