Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn says a mobile phone app to help trace coronavirus infections in a bid to keep the spread under control will be made available to the public in the coming days.
The German government has switched to backing a coronavirus-tracing app using technology supported by Google and Apple, ditching a German-led alternative that had come under fire over privacy concerns.
A man convicted of murder 37 years ago has the right to be forgotten and have his name removed from online search results, Germany's highest court ruled on Wednesday.
Millions of records belonging to patients worldwide, including X-Rays, mammograms and MRI scans, were long freely accessible online without basic security measures, German authorities said Tuesday after a media investigation.
A German data protection official has convinced Google to stop human workers from listening to audio recorded by its digital assistant across the EU, after a leak showed staff could hear private conversations.
The German state of Hesse has banned Microsoft's Office 365 software, in an example of how overly restrictive privacy laws can end up hurting students more than helping them.
Facebook must grant the parents of a dead girl access as heirs to their daughter's user account, which had been blocked for five and a half years, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled on Thursday.
Germany's justice minister on Monday said Facebook should face "stricter" oversight and be more transparent with its users, as the tech giant struggles to contain the fallout from a huge data privacy scandal.
A German court has found Facebook is breaching data protection rules with privacy settings that over-share by default and by requiring users to give real names, a consumer rights organisation said Monday.
After a marathon sitting lasting the whole week, the German parliament (Bundestag) agreed upon a law on Friday that will relax restrictions on video surveillance in shops, stadiums and stations.
German data protection authorities on Tuesday said they had blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data from its subsidiary WhatsApp, citing privacy concerns.
The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (vzbv) has threatened legal action against WhatsApp for passing on user information such as telephone numbers to Facebook, which new user terms permit it to do.
The BND, Germany's version of the CIA, has been accused of massive breaches of the constitution in a leaked report by the government's representative for data protection.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is set to publish a draft law on Thursday which would create major changes, including the abolition of dual citizenship and softening doctor-patient confidentiality rules.
Sixty percent of Germans think internet users should be forced to use their real name when leaving comments - but the response varies dramatically between different age groups.
The German High court has ruled that Facebook and other social networks which send invitations to join right to peopleâs inboxes are engaging in "unwanted and harassing" advertising.
US tech giant Microsoft has put new data centres in Germany under the control of Deutsche Telekom, the companies said on Wednesday, in a move that will keep privacy-sensitive Germans' customer data in the country.
A controversial new law requiring telecoms companies to retain details of Germans' communications for 10 weeks was passed on Friday with votes from 404 MPs.
Germany's biggest telecoms firms have promoted a national email network after the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted millions of emails via international hubs. But how realistic are dreams of a German-only system?
A German blogger is revealing every detail of his life online as part of a so-called âpost-privacyâ experiment. The 28-year-old believes all information should be made public, but critics accuse him of being naive.
Facebook has deactivated its facial recognition feature in Europe after complaints from Germany that it represented a threat to privacy and was against EU law.
Germanyâs upper house of parliament has halted a new law affecting citizens' data privacy that caused a scandal earlier this year, when it was passed by the lower house in just 57 seconds.
Germanyâs top data protection official has complained he cannot test how a spy computer program used by the police works â because the firm that made it will not help him examine it and the police do not have the source code.
