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General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

CMS quarterly communications update - July 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
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  • July 20 2012

Quarterly update summarising regulatory and legal developments from the last three months in the communications, media and satellite sectors in Europe

Cloud computing in Germany

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • Germany
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  • July 19 2011

The IT sector has overcome worldwide depression

CMS quarterly communications update April 2012

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, Germany, Global, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2012

This edition includes contributions from the United Kingdom, Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

New act on the distribution of highly detailed satellite data

  • Bird & Bird
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  • Germany
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  • March 18 2008

In November 2007, the German Parliament adopted the Act for the “Protection of the Security of the Federal Republic of Germany Against Endangerment by the Distribution of Highly Detailed Terrestrial Satellite Data” ("Gesetz zum Schutz vor Gefährdung der Sicherheit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch das Verbreiten von hochwertigen Erdfernerkundungsdaten"

Deutsche Telekom issues first data protection report

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 15 2009

As a consequence of the data protection scandals at Deutsche Telekom AG over the last few years, the company is committed to reviewing these incidents by publishing an annual data protection report

German court rules on data retention and submits questions to ECJ

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • European Union, Germany
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  • April 28 2009

On March 16, 2009, the German Administrative Court of Wiesbaden published a February court decision (Az. 6 K 104508 WI) requesting the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to assess the compatibility of the Data Retention Directive (Directive 200624) regarding the retention of telephone and Internet data with basic constitutional rights

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
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  • Germany, USA
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  • May 24 2010

Authorities in both the United States and Germany are poised to begin inquiries into Google's collection of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars, which were deployed to take street-level photos and collect basic Wi-Fi information, such as the SSIDs and MAC addresses of WiFi routers

Google admits to collecting web usage data via Wi-Fi hot spots

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Germany
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  • May 21 2010

Regulators in Germany are pressing for an investigation of Google in the wake of the web search giant's disclosure on Monday that equipment aboard Google vans that is designed to obtain data for the company's Street View map service and track the location of Wi-Fi hot spots inadvertently collected unsecured web data transmitted by users over Wi-Fi connections

German Federal Constitutional Court declares implementation of Data Retention Directive unconstitutional

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • Germany
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  • March 2 2010

On March 2, 2010, the German Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the mass storage of telephone and Internet data for law enforcement purposes is unlawful in its current form