GermanyTelekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz, Protection of Privacy in Terminal Equipment
Also known as TTDSG, Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutzgesetz.
In force since .
A device storage and tracking consent rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Consent, Disclosure
What it requires
- Obtain the end user's consent, given on the basis of clear and comprehensive information and in the manner the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires, before storing information on the end user's terminal equipment or accessing information already stored there.
- No consent is required where the storage or access serves only to carry a message over a public telecommunications network, or is strictly necessary to provide a digital service the user explicitly requested.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden des Bundes und der Länder (DSK) (guidance, recorded ); Case C-673/17 Planet49, judgment of the Court of Justice of (recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST Privacy Framework
- CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
Penalty structure
TDDDG § 28(1) Nr. 13, (2).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 300,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) supervises compliance with this section where the storage or access is carried out by a provider of telecommunications services or a federal public body; the Act does not name the competent supervisory authority for another operator's storage of or access to information.
Settledness
- As of
- Case link
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:62017CJ0673
- Guidance link
- https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/media/oh/OH_Digitale_Dienste.pdf
- Case citation
- Case C-673/17 Planet49, judgment of the Court of Justice of
- Guidance body
- Konferenz der unabhängigen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden des Bundes und der Länder (DSK)
What this law does
Section 25(1) permits storing information in an end user's terminal equipment, or accessing information already stored there, only where the end user has consented on the basis of clear and comprehensive information, with the information and the consent given in the manner Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) requires.
Section 25(2) excepts storage or access whose sole purpose is carrying a message over a public telecommunications network, and storage or access strictly necessary for a provider of a digital service to supply a digital service the user explicitly requested. The Act was enacted on as the Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutzgesetz (TTDSG) and took effect on .
The Gesetz zur Durchführung der Verordnung (EU) 2022/2065 (the German Digital Services Act implementation act) of renamed it, with effect from , to the Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz (TDDDG).
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app tracks devices.
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