Data Protection Authorities

The European Court of Justice handed down its Schrems decision invalidating the Safe Harbor mechanism on October 6, 2015.  Since then, companies have been looking to the Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) of EU member states to see how the decision would be interpreted and enforced. As many companies know, Germany is a multifaceted data-protection landscape.  Germany maintains seventeen (17) independent DPAs.  Sixteen of these DPAs are run by the German states (or Länder), and these state-run DPAs are primarily responsible for overseeing private companies.  The remaining DPA is run by Germany’s [...] Read more