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German companies must still wait for law to end misuse of GDPR non-compliance letters

By Cynthia Kroet ( March 30, 2020, 08:46 GMT | Insight) -- German businesses' hopes of preventing the misuse of cease-and-desist practices in data-protection cases will have to wait at least a few more months as a national draft law, which includes measures to prevent these attempts from happening, works its way through the legislative process. Currently, companies in Germany can issue cease-and-desist letters to rivals threatening them with legal action over alleged breaches of competition and data-privacy law.German businesses' hopes of preventing the misuse of cease-and-desist practices in data-protection cases will have to wait at least a few more months as a national draft law, which includes measures to prevent these attempts from happening, works its way through the legislative process....

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