TDDDG - Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (Germany)

Official Name

TDDDG or “Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz” translated as the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act

The bill has been in effect since December 1, 2021.

TDDDG includes regulations regarding:

The use of cookies: The sole purpose of the cookie is to facilitate the transmission of a communication over a public telecommunications network; or if the cookie is strictly necessary in order to provide a telemedia service explicitly requested by the user.
The rights of inheritors against providers of telecommunication services (Section 3 of the TDDDG – the aim of this provision is not really clear after the German Supreme Court decided on July 12, 2018 – Case III ZR 183/17, that inheritors may claim access to social media accounts of the deceased);
Obligations regarding technical and organizational measures of providers of telemedia services, in particular options to always discontinue the use of a service or to use the service anonymously or with a pseudonym and notification obligation if the user is transferred to the service of another provider of telemedia services (Section 19 of the TDDDG – these rules already exist in the current Section 13 of the Telemedia Act)
Access to general contractual data processed by providers of telemedia services for the purposes of IP infringement and violations of the Network Enforcement Act (Section 21 of the TDDDG);