Posts tagged #GDPR
All PostsGER: Altered IBAN – Buyers Bear Resulting Loss
Civil LawInstead of receiving valuable gold bars, the buyers in the case at hand ultimately incurred a six-figure loss. Criminals had altered bank details on an emailed invoice, resulting in the buyers transferring over EUR 100,000 to a third-party account. T...
Limits for Abusive GDPR Requests
Data Privacy LawIn the case at hand, a person living in Austria had signed up for a German optician’s newsletter by entering personal information into the company’s online registration form. Several weeks later, the individual contacted the optician's shop to reques...
One-year deadline for data protection complaints
Data Privacy LawThe Austrian Administrative Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof, hereinafter VwGH) reviewed whether the one-year deadline specified in Section 24(4) of the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, hereinafter DSG) under national procedural law alig...