German American Law Journal / American Edition
16. Februar 2013 —CK - Washington. Facebook's name policy applied to German users is governed by Irish, not German, law, an administrative law court ruled on February 14, 2013. A German privacy agency had ordered Facebook to open its name policy to pseudonyms, see Injunction Against Facebook Name Policy. Facebook obt…
18. Dezember 2012 —CK Google Plus' clear name policy may infuriate users, but Facebook irked the data protection and privacy agency in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. On December 17, 2012, it announced injunctions against Facebook's Irish and American entities, arguing that its prohibition of screen names vi…
20. August 2011 —CK - Washington. Facebook's Like button ran into trouble in a northern German state on August 19, 2011. The Independent Center for Data Protection in Schleswig-Holstein issued a warning to users of the Like button and Facebook pages in the state: A penalty not to exceed 50,000 euros could await su…
20. Januar 2006 —CK - Washington. The German federal states, Länder, have some law that is all their own. The Civil Code, Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, is uniformly federal, but building and zoning, for instance, are state matters. Members of the Anwalt mailing list have compiled sources pointing to Länder statutes on …
