Compliance has recently shifted into the spotlight for German companies. But while German and American businesses generally take the same systematic approach to compliance and have developed comparable corporate cultures to address the topic, important differences remain.

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Social media offer enterprises many new opportunities of communicating with stakeholders, especially with customers in the B2C business. However, in the eupho-ria it is all too common to overlook the new legal risks that are also associated therewith.

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In virtually no other country is the scepticism about cloud computing as great as it is in Germany. The concerns of enterprises regarding the centralised storage of data. The legislator has reacted and will most likely introduce new provisions to protect such data; its proposals are the subject of hefty debate: How save is the cloud?

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On 25 January 2012 the Commission’s official proposal for the Regulation was presented. On the whole, the Regulation is essentially in line with the law applicable in Germany to date. Nevertheless, there will be numerous significant amendments in future.

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