09/30/2020

Frankfurt am Main Regional Court – No damages despite data protection violation

In its September 18, 2020 judgement (Case 2-27 O 100/20), Frankfurt am Main Regional Court addresses various claims asserted by a consumer against Mastercard. A data incident had occurred in the context of a bonus program for German customers that was operated by a service provider. Unidentified criminals made data collected from some 90,000 bonus program participants publicly accessible on the Internet.