how i stay up-to-date on data protection & privacy law
Data protection, privacy and tech is a very dynamic field; every day, there are new court decisions, actions by big tech companies, and resulting questions, so thought I could share my resources that keep me informed. Unless marked with a German flag 🇩🇪, these are English.
Newsletter subscriptions
Not everyone has an RSS feed or their newsletter has additional info, so I settle for it.
RSS feed
- 🇩🇪 BfDI
- 🇩🇪 Stiftung Datenschutz
- 🇩🇪 Netzpolitik.org
- European Law Blog
- EDRI.org
- Epicenter.works (🇩🇪 by default, but lets you select English version)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 404media
- ProPublica
- TheCitizenLab
Websites (no RSS/Newsletter available)
Other
These are less interesting/applicable to you as a reader, but are still helpful for me.
- Meetings with the data protection officer at my workplace.
- Following specific, notable people in the space - like via the RSS feed of their BlueSky or Mastodon.
- Magazine subscriptions like the Datenschutzberater
- My volunteer work at noyb.eu, translating and summarizing court cases, and learning about new events and projects in their Country Reporter meetings.
- Attending conferences, like the Beschäftigtendatenschutztag in Munich (2025) and Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) in Brussels (2026, upcoming).
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