Streamdiver Think Tank

YouTube is making videos a sideshow: With the amendment of its terms and conditions on June 1, 2021, the U.S. company secured the right to monetization and can now decide on timing and type of third-party advertising in videos. Learn more about the consequences in this short summary. … Read More

With the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation, the topic of data protection gained some presence for a certain period in 2018. This was not least due to the drastically increased penalty ranges for fines, which as is well known can reach up to 20 million euros or 4% of the total global turnover.
What seems to have largely escaped public attention in the process, however, is the fact that national legislatures have introduced judicial criminal offenses in addition to this particular form of punishment of the “fine” under data protection law. This is the case in Austria and Germany, for example. In Austria, the following provision was introduced for this purpose in Section 63 of the Data Protection Act: … Read More

Since the decision of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) in Case C-311/18 in July 2020 – better known as the “Privacy Shield decision” or “Schrems II” – it has been established in principle that there is no adequate level of data protection in the USA. Since then, transfers of personal data to US recipients have therefore only been permitted under extremely limited conditions. … Read More

One of the classic data protection traps is the embedding of YouTube videos on the corporate website.

Even if it is commonly assumed in this context that the data collection by YouTube/Google (yes, YouTube belongs to Google) does not affect the operator of the embedding website, this in fact makes the operator the extended arm and contributor to a comprehensive data transfer to a US data collector. … Read More

Over the past decade, YouTube has permanently changed the way companies and organizations externalize digital content. Our product manager and video expert Helmar takes a look behind the wallpaper of the video platform and gives five reasons why it is often not advisable to use the US provider in the professional use of digital video. In his video, you can find out how YouTube deals with issues such as personalization, advertising and viewing time, and what all this has to do with cat videos. … Read More