Employee Data Protection
Increased requirements for employers because of wealth of new legislation
As soon as the issue of workplace monitoring is raised, employers and employees tend to have widely different opinions regarding the admissibility of such monitoring under data protection and employment law.
New information duties for employers as well as extended rights for employees to request information are placing greater demand on employee data protection. This will in future be governed by the revised Federal Data Protection Act. In addition, various provisions under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that are relevant for all personal data must be complied with.
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News: 12 MARCH 2021
Allen & Overy is pleased to welcome Cedric Lindenmann to join its Asia Pacific technology practice
Cedric is joining us from our Tier 1 technology practice in Europe and has worked on numerous international projects in Europe, the US, the Middle East and Asia. His relocation to the Singapore office…
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News: 29 JANUARY 2021
Allen & Overy advises SAP on the acquisition of Signavio
Allen & Overy has advised SAP SE on the acquisition of Signavio GmbH, a leading company in the enterprise business process intelligence and process management space.
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Publications: 09 OCTOBER 2020
Hamburg regulator issues EUR 35 million GDPR fine for data privacy breach
The Hamburg Data Protection Authority imposed the largest ever GDPR fine in German history on Swedish fashion company H&M on 1 October 2020. According to the regulator, the company had stored and used…
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Publications: 29 MAY 2020
Active user consent is required, while previously practiced opt-out mechanisms are unlawful
On 28 May 2020, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof; BGH) issued its decision in the Planet49 case that had previously been referred to and decided on by the Court of Justice of the…
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