28 October 2020

Wednesday

14.00 - UK / 15.00 - CET 

Convergence and conflicts with other laws

Dirk Hensel, Head of Communications & Executive Office, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection
Dr. Lars Lensdorf, Partner, Covington & Burling, Frankfurt

• How different laws are becoming more relevant to privacy issues e.g. the Facebook decision of the Federal Cartel Authority and the subsequent Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf and Federal Supreme Court decisions.
• How different German authorities work together and cooperate and align their positions on other privacy related topics e.g. the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) on telecommunication law issues and the Federal Data Protection Authority)
  Conflicting laws based on recent experience
• Use of cookies and the relationship between the GDPR and the EU e-privacy directive and the Federal Tele Media Act (TMG)
• Direct marketing and the relationship between the GDPR (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) and the German Act against Unfair Competition (Section 7)
• Taking and use of photos of persons and the relationship between the GDPR and the German Copyright Act (Kunsturhebergesetz)

4 November 2020

Wednesday

14.00 - UK / 15.00 - CET 

International Transfers

Alexander Filip, Head of Department, Bavarian Data Protection Authority
Dr. Moritz Hüsch, Partner, Covington & Burling, Frankfurt
Kristof van Quathem, Of Counsel, Covington & Burling, Brussels

• Validity of Standard Contractual Clauses - current status of any data protection related cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union and potential planned updates of the clauses at the time of the conference
• The Use of Standard Contractual Clauses in practice - challenges and pragmatic solutions
• Overreach of US and other non-EU authorities in accessing personal data originating in the EU for conducting investigations
• Data transfers and Brexit

11 November 2020

Wednesday

14.00 - UK / 15.00 - CET 

Joint controllers: Status and developments

Kristin Benedikt, Judge, Administrative Court, Regensburg, Bavaria
Michael Kaiser, Head of Department, Hesse Data Protection Authority
Dan Cooper, Partner & Co-Chair of Data Privacy Practice, Covington & Burling, Brussels

• Legal basis for joint controllers – lessons learned from the Jehovah's Witnesses, Fashion-ID and Facebook cases
• Typical issues - practical experience
• How to draft an agreement according to Art. 26 GDPR

18 November 2020

Wednesday

14.00 - UK / 15.00 - CET 

Privacy and labor law: A complex interaction

Katja Horlbeck, Data Protection Officer, Hesse Data Protection Authority
Dr. Lars Lensdorf, Partner, Covington & Burling, Frankfurt

• The role of works councils in using access on employment issues
• Right of access: A tool of pre-trial discovery?
• Scope of the access right and management of requests
• Obligation to provide copies to fulfil requests
• Recent court decisions and their consequences

25 November 2020

Wednesday

14.00 - UK / 15.00 - CET 

Enforcement trends by German regulators and damage claims

David Schweizer, Deputy Head, Fining Division, LfDI Baden-Württemberg
Steffen Weiß, Member of the Board for International Affairs, German Association for Data Protection and Data Security
Dan Cooper, Partner & Co-Chair of Data Privacy Practice, Covington & Burling, Brussels
Dr. Moritz Hüsch, Partner, Covington & Burling, Frankfurt

• New calculation model developed by the German regulators.
• Development of fines together with other enforcement techniques
• Fines recently imposed by different Land (state) Data Protection Authorities
• Fines recently imposed by other European regulators
• Calculation of data subjects’ damage claims