Questions tagged [germany]
Jurisdiction of Germany.
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Partial payment of registration fee required?
I am a 17-year-old student. In summer 2016, I registered for a MUN (Model United Nations) in Friedrichshafen, Germany. After two months, I lost interest in attending the conference set for October ...
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Keeping a user's agreement to service terms after the account was closed?
When new users sign up on my software as a service platform they have to agree to the terms and conditions. That they did so is stored in a database record along with the revision of the legal ...
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Ask people for WhatsApp address book consent; what to do when declined?
I have first posted this question on Super User. Since I tagged it with Android (as I use WhatsApp on Android) it got migrated to Android Enthusiasts. There one decided that it was not on-topic for ...
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Under which German laws is it illegal to mock foreign rulers?
I read this (to me) strange article in the Washington Post saying a German comedian would go on trial in Germany for mocking the Turkish president.
It appears from the article that it's this whole ...
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Is it normal for German Landlords to intercept internet traffic?
After reading https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/136543/landlord-will-be-watching-my-data-traffic-as-mentioned-in-the-lease-agreement I was wondering if this realy is common in germany?
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Fine and contract-renew after NOT receiving an invoice
First things first, let's provide a little bit of background to my question:
3 Years ago I moved to Germany, where I pay my taxes. Since the first year I didn't understand very much about this topic, ...
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Is it really illegal for Google to keep unblurred Street View imagery made in Germany and even in European Union?
If so, what exact laws are responsible for it?
I'm a big fan of Google Street View and I have heard that it's illegal in European Union and in Germany to keep street view imagery in unblurred form ...
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Is it perjury if I accidentally make a false statement under oath, but fail to correct it once I realized?
This answer claims that you are required to correct an accidental false statement made under oath:
When you become aware that a statement made under oath was false
(assuming such a statement was ...
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Is it legal to write PhD theses for other people?
I got an offer from a newspaper to make my story public on how I wrote a lot of PhD's for paying customers. Do I have to fear legal consequences and what would happen if I make it public (without ...
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German legal prostitution and sexual harassment laws?
How do laws against sexual harassment look like in places like Germany where prostitution was not only decriminalized, but legalized, and brought to a level of a professional occupation?
could a job ...
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How do i report an Email crime in Germany?
A couple of German companies are making money off my name. Since they do not care about my requests to remove my name from their sites and Google refuses to remove them from the Google search I would ...
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Do I have the right to get a copy of the source code I wrote during an internship? (Germany)
I did an internship in a small software company in Germany and wrote mainly two programs, one which is just an example to learn the language which has no monetary value and another one which could be ...
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Landlord promised partial refund of apartment rent - how can I enforce this?
I currently live in Germany and I have rented an apartment for three months with monthly cost 450 euros. The deposit/caution was 1,200 euros.
My problem is that my landlord (let's call him Bob) is ...
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Using business-only software API without being a business
I wanted to try out the Google Cloud Vision API for free, but there was this notice:
This service can only be used for business or commercial reasons. You are responsible for assessing and ...
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Is using a qualified electronical signature an option or a right legally seen?
Nowadays, many countries have introduced the idea of qualified electronic signatures (QES), which are digital signatures which also need to meet some special requirements to ensure the public-key to ...
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