German BGH: GDPR compensation for loss of control

Data Subject Rights noyb welcomes yesterday's leading decision of the German Federal Court of Justice on claims in connection with a data protection incident at Facebook Copyright for header picture above: Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia CommonsPress Release by the BGH (in German)Video of the Ruling (in German)Report by German public broadcaster ZDF on the Ruling (in German)Statement by Max Schrems.Max Schrems: "Despite clear provisions in the GDPR and several CJEU rulings, German courts have regularly refused damages in data protection cases. We are pleased that the BGH has now put its foot down and brought German case law into line. The legal debate in Germany has so far been dominated by corporate lawyers, and some courts have allowed themselves to be swayed by their crude theories and quickly dismissed tricky GDPR cases. As a result, Germany has become a Europe-wide problem for data protection cases."German courts