Amendments to the German Federal Data Protection Act
In this special Issue of our IT Ticker, we would like to inform you of some of the main points of the two reforms of the German Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdaten-schutzgesetz, BDSG) in the year 2009.
The first reform relates to “scoring” and the activities by credit agencies; it was adopted by the German Federal Parliament on 12.05.2009. The second reform was preceded by data scandals and intensive discussions regarding their consequences, such as the abolition of the “list privilege”. That reform was adopted by the German Federal Parliament on 03.07.2009 and approved by the German Federal Council on 10.07.2009. The planned “Data Protection Audit Act” was not adopted. Large parts of the amendments will apply as early as from 01.09.2009.
In this special Issue of our IT Ticker, we set out some of the central issues of both reforms, which will result in various changes to the BDSG.
