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by wolfgke 3507 days ago
- The cookie law: https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/

- In Germany if you put up a web site that has to contain a site imprint. If you don't put all the required informations on it, you can easily get sued.

- In Germany if you put up an open WiFi, if you don't pay a lot of attention on the legal details, it can easily happen that you get sued if someone does something illegal on your open WiFi (Mitstörerhaftung; the internet dictionary that I use does not even know how this can be translated to English, because such a concept seems to be unheard of in English-speaking countries).

- The Datenschutzgesetz (data protection act). While I consider it as a good idea, it is very foreign for people from the US. You are only allowed to store as few data as necessary on a person and if necessary you have to anonymize or pseudonomize the data:

> https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_1990/__3a.html

You also have a right to get information what data is stored about you:

> https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_1990/__19.html

Such laws caused problems for Facebook: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html

- The (in)famous §202c StGB: https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/202c.html which makes it a dangerous legal gray zone to to security research.

1 comments

Thanks - I've always known about the cookie law but not those other acts. It does seem harder for a tech company.