Lars Lensdorf and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write:
On February 7, 2024, the German Federal Cabinet approved a draft law (“the Draft Law”) amending the Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”). The Draft Law will now go to the Bundesrat (the legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder (federated states) of Germany at the federal level ) for its opinion and then to the Bundestag (the federal parliament) for discussion and, potentially, adoption.
The Draft Law aims to address the issues highlighted in the 2021 Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs BDSG evaluation by amending Part 1 and 2 of the BDSG. Other legislative projects will address further amendments. In addition, separately but in parallel to the changes to the BDSG, the German Federal Cabinet is also proposing changes to the Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (“TTDSG”), which we will not cover in this blog post.
The following is a summary of the main changes the Draft Law proposes to bring to the BDSG….
Read more at Inside Privacy.