🇩🇪 Germany

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• 2026-09-07 Bavaria: Planned Changes to the Bavarian Data Protection Act — Bavaria plans to amend the Bavarian Data Protection Act (BayDSG). Not least due to advancing technological and social developments, new administrative procedures, practical enforcement experiences, and evolving case law, there is an ongoing need to examine whether legal clarifications and simplifications are possible and how administrative practice implements them. Therefore, targeted amendments and modernization of the BayDSG are now appropriate,… (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 BfDI: Short Scale of the Data Barometer for Measuring Data Protection Competence — With a new publication series, the BfDI aims to further strengthen the scientific foundation of its survey project ‘Data Barometer’. Under the title ‘Data Barometer Background’, methods and tools of regular, representative population surveys on data protection topics are made transparent and further developed. The opening is a new empirically validated short scale for measuring data protection competence (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 BfDI: Resolving Cookie Banner Regulation in the European Context — The BfDI demands that a European solution in the EU Digital Omnibus could achieve a reduction in cookie banners and avoid over-regulation. In its publication ‘BfDI Data Barometer Survey Results and Cookie Manager Recommendations’, it demonstrates that cookie banners often do not enable informed decisions. The basis for these findings are the results of a nationwide representative Data Barometer survey from the previous year (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 HmbBfDI: Google Street View and Requirements for Pixelation Requests — The HmbBfDI informs about the requirements that Google sets for proof purposes in pixelation requests. Google wants to prevent irreversible pixelation from being carried out based on information from unauthorized persons. 1.9 HmbBfDI and Third-Country Transfer (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 LfDI Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: AI Guide for Small Organizations — The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania published a new guide for the use of AI systems with limited or minimal risk. The guide ‘Data Protection-Compliant and Digitally Sovereign Use of Artificial Intelligence with Limited or Minimal Risk’ is aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and smaller administrations and contains checklists as well as legal and technical tips. 1.13 LfDI Rhineland-Palatinate:… (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 Administrative Court of Berlin: Legitimate Interests, Information Obligation, and Art. 5 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR — A company that leases solar systems or distributes them through installment purchase models carried out a credit check on a prospective customer, for which it had a ‘power of attorney’ issued in advance before costly measurements on technical feasibility took place. In the company’s data protection declaration, the credit assessment was based on Art. 6 Para (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 Bavaria: Motion in State Parliament for Sectoral Exemptions in GDPR for Associations — In the Bavarian State Parliament, there is a motion from the ruling parties there to create a sectoral exemption for activities of associations and other voluntary organizations from the GDPR at European level. According to the motion, the state parliament should decide to urge the state government to press strongly at EU and federal level for activities of associations and other voluntary organizations that operate predominantly without profit motives to… (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 HBDI: FAQ on Credit Information Agencies — The HBDI has posted FAQs about credit information agencies on its website. It covers topics such as storage duration of residual debt relief, multiple storage of claims, as well as the Fraud Prevention Check value (FPC value). 1.11 LfDI Baden-Württemberg: ‘Stuttgart Impulses’ in Podcast and Discussion of Consultation Results (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 LfDI Rhineland-Palatinate: Mandatory Computer Science Subject — How Rhineland-Palatinate schools can now design the mandatory computer science subject is informed by the LfDI Rhineland-Palatinate on its website. Another 30 pilot schools in Rhineland-Palatinate introduced the mandatory computer science subject at the start of the new school year. This is also intended to include media competence (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-07 LfDI Baden-Württemberg: ‘Stuttgart Impulses’ in Podcast and Discussion of Consultation Results — We reported that the data protection authorities of the federal states and the federal government published their considerations on improving cooperation between authorities and changes in substantive law in the ‘Stuttgart Impulses’. There we also linked two podcast episodes on the ‘Stuttgart Impulses’. Now there is also a podcast episode on the topic from the LfDI Baden-Württemberg (Datenzirkus (BvD))
• 2026-09-04 Minutes: 111. Conference of the Independent Data Protection Supervisory Authorities of the Federal Government and the States on June 17 and 18, 2026 — Minutes: 111. Conference of the Independent Data Protection Supervisory Authorities of the Federal Government and the States on June 17 and 18 (Die Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK))
• 2026-09-02 Resolution: Standardized audit process for data protection requirements for EfA online services under the Online Access Act (OZG) (Die Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK))
• 2026-09-01 Application note: English version of requirements for data protection certification programs (Requirements for Data Protection Certificati (datenschutzkonferenz-online.de)

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