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The conference of the independent federal and state data protection authorities in Germany has published guidelines for employers on the limits of control of email and other Internet services in the workplace on January 27, 2016.

Last week, German regulators decided to no longer accept the widely used "JusProg" software as a sufficient means for online service providers to comply with statutory youth protection requirements.

This page appears to be a security verification checkpoint that temporarily blocks access while validating the incoming request. The system implements protective measures to distinguish legitimate users from automated traffic or potential security threats.

The dangers in the area of cybercrime have been steadily increasing for years. The risks range from data theft and espionage to IT failures and production stoppages.

The European Central Bank has issued an urgent directive to major financial institutions requiring comprehensive action plans to counter rapidly evolving cybersecurity threats powered by frontier artificial intelligence models. With an October 2026 deadline looming, banks must demonstrate concrete measures across vulnerability management, monitoring capabilities, and third-party risk controls as AI-enabled attacks compress the timeline between threat discovery and exploitation. This supervisory escalation s

This decision relates to a European patent application that concerns displaying e-mail messages with E-mail read status indication.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries through physical AI systems that perceive environments, make real-time decisions, and act in the physical world via robots, autonomous vehicles, and drones. As these systems control physical operations, algorithmic errors can cause physical harm, raising complex questions about liability, safety, and regulatory compliance. The European regulatory landscape has evolved significantly with the EU AI Act, new Machinery Regulation, revised Product Liability Directi

Retail and consumer goods companies face mounting pressure from shrinking margins, slowing growth, and increasingly complex distribution channels. Agentic AI offers a transformative solution by embedding intelligence directly into operations, enabling agents to observe, decide, and act across entire workflows. This analysis reveals how industry leaders are moving beyond scattered pilots to capture enterprise-scale value through coordinated AI deployment across eight critical value loops.

The Düsseldorf Local Division partially upheld a patent relating to multimedia content sharing in peer-to-peer configurations and found indirect infringement by Disney's streaming service. The decision addresses critical issues of claim construction, patent validity, and procedural aspects while applying established UPC case law on inventive step testing.

One of the requirements will be to enter into a joint-controller data protection agreement with Facebook.

A European patent application for a method of estimating departure times for scheduled events was refused by the Technical Board of Appeal. The Board found that effects resulting from modified business schemes cannot contribute to technical character, and that inherent effects from computer implementation are insufficient without achieving a "further" technical effect beyond normal computational processes.

As evidenced on 19 July 2024 major IT outages, including those caused by a simple yet apparently defective "content update", can quickly cascade into systemic cyber incidents...