Overview

• State commissioner Dieter Kugelmann presents selected cases at 11:00 in Mainz to illustrate unresolved issues following a 2024 complaint peak.
• An Abitur case examined whether a school could inspect a pupil’s tablet history, with the authority noting checks are more defensible on school-issued devices restricted to school use.
• In a dispute over a deceased woman’s burial date, the authority said GDPR does not cover data of the dead, leaving the daughter to pursue civil-law remedies.
• Further examples include contested video surveillance, questions about foster-parent rights, and a Kusel outreach program corrected after unlawful data sharing for home-visit offers.
• Enforcement snapshots and workload figures include a €2,000 fine for a medical practice over retention and outsourcing lapses, an €800 penalty after vehicle-holder data were misused on the A3, and 1,111 complaints in 2024 with a further rise reported this year.