The Cabinet of Germany decides on the adaptation of the Federal Data Protection Act

The adopted draft legislation was criticised by various organisations, for reasons such as its limited monitoring powers or because the EU GDPR was watered down by an elaborate use of opening clauses.

Sources:

• The Federal Data Protection Act gets an overhaul
• The Federal Government’s draft legislation
• EU data protection: the adaptation and implementation legislation needs to be improved!
• Data protectors have a “major need for change”