2023-05-31 04:02:00
Brussels, Dusseldorf, Berlin After the record fine against Meta for violations of data protection, the risk of high fines is also increasing for German companies. Data protectionists see the decision as a precedent that can be applied to all companies that process data on servers in the USA – for example when using cloud services.
If companies “similarly transfer personal data inadmissibly, they should urgently stop this and change their processing,” said Marit Hansen, data protection officer of Schleswig-Holstein, the Handelsblatt. Otherwise, fines could be imposed as with Meta. “In the event that a supervisory authority would determine a comparable situation in their audits, the consequences would also be comparable.”
The danger is acute: Across Germany, many companies were already being targeted by the supervisory authorities before the verdict. “In hundreds of cases, data protection authorities are investigating data transfers to the USA,” said Hamburg data protection officer Ulrich Kühn to the Handelsblatt.
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