Germany: Lower Saxony data protection authority legal assessment of Volkswagen AG on new data processing procedures in customer vehicles

Progress

Current status
under deliberation
26 Sep 2024 under deliberation

Scope

Implementers
Germany
Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
technological consumer goods
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority
Implementation Level
subnational

Timeline of events

26 Sep 2024
under deliberation

Announced Lower Saxony data protection authority legal assessment of Volkswagen AG on new data processing procedures in customer vehicles

On 26 September 2024, the state commissioner for data protection in Lower Saxony announced that, along with the data protection supervisory authorities in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, it was engaged in an exchange with Volkswagen AG and its subsid…

Source
Event type investigation
Action type announcement
Government branch executive
Government body data protection authority