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German Authorities Have Called for a Data Protection Law for Employees

July 20, 2022

Via: SHRM
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On May 4, the German Conference of the Federal and State Data Protection Authorities (DSK) published a call for an Employee Data Protection Act. As a reminder, in Germany, data protection is organized by state. There are state data protection authorities for each of the 16 German states and two for Bavaria—one each for public and for private data controllers. Together with the Federal Data Protection Authority of Germany, which is in charge of federal public data controllers, they comprise the DSK.

In their call for a specific employee data protection act, the DSK are referring to the announcement by the German governing parties in the federal coalition agreement of November 2021 that a distinct employee privacy act would be created by the coalition parties that are planning on being in government until 2025.

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