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On June 12, the German Parliament (Bundestag) adopted the new Information Technology Security Act (source document in German).

The Winter 2018 edition of the quarterly IT & Data Protection Newsletter by Reed Smith Germany has just been released.

Companies have to be cautious when sending out newsletters and other emails with advertising content. Before approaching someone for marketing purposes, the recipient's prior consent must generally be obtained.

In its reference decision of 15 August 2023 (Ref.: 5 U 93/22), the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg ruled on the issuing of prescriptions for prescription-only medicines...

On 19 April 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a preliminary ruling (Case C-523/10 Wintersteiger AG v Products 4U Sondermaschinenbau GmbH) on the relationship between jurisdiction and a country-specific search engine website.

Placing a focus on female empowerment, law firm SKW Schwarz hosted the first DIGITAL FEMALE event in cooperation with Axel Springer at Münzstudio in Berlin on September 12, 2019.

According to German telemedia law, each person and company maintaining an own website to sell goods or services is required to make available certain information.

The Federal Court of Justice has decided whether the use of typing-error-domains constitutes a violation of the right to a name or is to be qualified as a breach of competition law.

Reuters reported about "Bitkom surveyed 503 top managers and security chiefs from across Germany's manufacturing sector" ...

A German publisher has failed in its first attempt to stop Google scanning its books and publishing excerpts from them on the internet.

Time and again internationally operating enterprises are endeavouring to find the optimal location for their IT servers.

The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) contains a new legal framework for government access to emails and other data stored abroad.

Last month the German Federal Government IT Advisory Committee ("Federal IT Committee") issued new cloud computing service criteria for all prospective vendors to German Federal Agencies.

On January 10, 2019, Munich Higher Regional Court ruled (Case 29 U 1091/18) in favor of a lawsuit brought by the North Rhine-Westphalia Verbraucherzentrale ...

The EU adopted the "CER" directive at the end of 2022, which is intended to contribute to the protection of critical digital infrastructure.