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Secretly recording a conversation in Germany is a criminal offence under § 201 StGB, punishable by up to three years or a fine. What nichtöffentlich means, when consent helps, and the civil exposure.
A neighbour camera pointing at your property in Germany: where the permission ends, what Überwachungsdruck means, the § 1004 BGB injunction, and which authority is competent.
When is photographing or filming a person in Germany a criminal offence? § 201a StGB, the separate upskirting offence in § 184k StGB, and the Recht am eigenen Bild in §§ 22 and 23 KunstUrhG explained.
German recording law in one map: § 201 StGB for the spoken word, § 201a and § 184k StGB for images, the DSGVO and BDSG for data, and the separate question of whether a court will admit the recording.
Are dashcams allowed in Germany? What the DSGVO and the BGH decision VI ZR 233/17 actually say about continuous recording, and when dashcam footage can be used as evidence.
What Verleumdung means under § 187 StGB: the knowledge of falsity element, the 2 year base and 5 year aggravated penalty tiers, and how it differs from § 186 and § 185 StGB.
Üble Nachrede under § 186 StGB: why a claim that is not demonstrably true is punishable, how that differs from § 187 and § 185 StGB, the penalties, and the three month deadline.
Beleidigung under § 185 StGB explained: what counts as criminal insult, the aggravated tiers, § 193 and § 199 StGB, the three month Strafantrag deadline, and how a Strafanzeige is actually filed.
German data protection supervision is split by entity type, not shared. § 40 Abs. 1 BDSG gives non-public bodies to the Länder and § 9 Abs. 1 BDSG confines the BfDI. The seventeen Land authorities, and how a Datenschutzbeschwerde works.
The Auskunftsrecht under Art. 15 DSGVO in Germany: what a company must disclose, the one month deadline and when it can be extended, the real limits, and which authority handles a complaint.
German data protection explained: how the DSGVO and the BDSG fit together, which authority supervises your organisation under § 40 BDSG, and when a Datenschutzbeauftragter is required.
When a German organisation must appoint a Datenschutzbeauftragter. Both limbs of § 38 BDSG, including the trigger that ignores headcount, the DSGVO grounds, internal versus external appointment, and the removal protection in § 6 BDSG.