Germany Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)
What is Germany Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG)?
Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, BDSG) of 2017, the national law that implements and supplements the GDPR and transposes the Law Enforcement Directive. It sets the German rules on employee data (s 26, read after the Court of Justice's C-34/21 ruling as a necessity test on top of a GDPR legal basis), video surveillance of publicly accessible spaces (s 4), the 20-person data protection officer threshold (s 38), special categories, scoring and the limits on data subject rights, and the full regime for police and prosecution authorities. Built from the current German consolidation (to 3 July 2026) read with the official English translation. It comprises 68 controls organised across 4 domains, and applies in Germany.
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