The original ePD was issued in 2002 and implemented by Germany in an update to the TKG in 2004 (and in an update to the UWG if you want to be pedantic). This precedes the GDPR by 12 years.
The GDPR is not a superset of the ePD. The GDPR did however lead to the recasting of the ePD in directive 2018/1972/EU (to clarify some ambiguities/conflicts created by the GDPR), which is what in turn led to the creation of the TTDSG which implemented the recast ePD and replaced parts of the TKG and TMG. The TTDSG in turn was renamed to the TDDDG when the DDG replaced the TMG due to the EU Digital Services Act.
So my statement that the TDDDG implemented the ePD was not entirely correct as the full story is a bit more complicated: the ePD was implemented in the TKG in 2004, the TTDSG implemented the recast ePD in 2021, the TTDSG was renamed to TDDDG in 2024. Also the TKG itself still exists, however parts of it were moved into the TTDSG/TDDDG.
But saying that the ePD did not lead to any changes in German law is wrong for both the original ePD and the recast ePD. Saying that the GDPR is a superset of the ePD is also wrong because if this were true, the ePD could have simply been replaced instead of having to be recast. And saying that the TDDDG didn't lead to substantial changes is only technical correct when referring to the renaming of the TTDSG to the TDDDG (which, again, was due to the EU DSA, not the EU GDPR nor ePD) but is, again, wrong when referring to the underlying TTDSG.
Here's a fairly comprehensible German language article about some of the changes in the TTDSG:
Of course "substantial changes" is subjective but that's different from what you originally claimed about Germany "not changing laws at all", which I've hopefully demonstrated isn't true by any means.
Aren't these details are mostly irrelevant? Can you name one additional requirement introduced with TTDSG or TDDDG which wasn't covered by the GDPR already?
The original ePD was issued in 2002 and implemented by Germany in an update to the TKG in 2004 (and in an update to the UWG if you want to be pedantic). This precedes the GDPR by 12 years.
The GDPR is not a superset of the ePD. The GDPR did however lead to the recasting of the ePD in directive 2018/1972/EU (to clarify some ambiguities/conflicts created by the GDPR), which is what in turn led to the creation of the TTDSG which implemented the recast ePD and replaced parts of the TKG and TMG. The TTDSG in turn was renamed to the TDDDG when the DDG replaced the TMG due to the EU Digital Services Act.
So my statement that the TDDDG implemented the ePD was not entirely correct as the full story is a bit more complicated: the ePD was implemented in the TKG in 2004, the TTDSG implemented the recast ePD in 2021, the TTDSG was renamed to TDDDG in 2024. Also the TKG itself still exists, however parts of it were moved into the TTDSG/TDDDG.
But saying that the ePD did not lead to any changes in German law is wrong for both the original ePD and the recast ePD. Saying that the GDPR is a superset of the ePD is also wrong because if this were true, the ePD could have simply been replaced instead of having to be recast. And saying that the TDDDG didn't lead to substantial changes is only technical correct when referring to the renaming of the TTDSG to the TDDDG (which, again, was due to the EU DSA, not the EU GDPR nor ePD) but is, again, wrong when referring to the underlying TTDSG.
Here's a fairly comprehensible German language article about some of the changes in the TTDSG:
https://cms.law/de/deu/publication/das-neue-ttdsg-ist-in-kra...
Of course "substantial changes" is subjective but that's different from what you originally claimed about Germany "not changing laws at all", which I've hopefully demonstrated isn't true by any means.