Legal framework
Content
- Overview 2 Hessian Higher Education Act 3 Hessian Matriculation Ordinance
- Hessian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act
- Criminal Code
- Telecommunications Act 7 Digital Services Act
- Copyright Act
1. overview
The legal texts are available from the Federal Ministry of Justice (https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de), on Hesse Law (https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de) or at the Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (https://datenschutz.hessen.de/infothek/gesetze) and can be read there or downloaded as a downloaded as a PDF file.
| Hessian IT Security Act - HITSiG | https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/perma?a=ITSiG_HE |
| General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj |
| Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) | https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bdsg_2018 |
| The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information | https://www.bfdi.bund.de |
| Hessian Higher Education Act | https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/… |
| Hessian Matriculation Ordinance | https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/… |
| Hessian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act | https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/… |
| The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information | https://www.datenschutz.hessen.de |
| German Criminal Code | https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/index.html |
| Telecommunications Act | https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/tkg_2021/index.html |
| Digital Services Act | https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ddg/ |
| Copyright and Related Rights Act | https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/index.html |
The following is a selection of paragraphs from some laws, relevant for research and teaching or IT security. are relevant.
2. Hessian Higher Education Act
| § 14 HessHG | Quality assurance, reporting |
| § 17 HessHG | Student Counselling |
| § 34 HessHG | Research with third-party funds |
| § 61 HessHG | Enrolment, Guest Auditors |
3rd Hessian Matriculation Ordinance
| § 3 HSchulImmV | Matriculation |
| § 5 HSchulImmV | Student ID card, student handbook |
| § 14 HSchulImmV | Processing of examination data |
| § 15 HSchulImmV | Processing of personal data |
| § 16 HSchulImmV | Data for university statistics |
| § 17 HSchulImmV | Transmission of data to the student body and the student union |
| § 18 HSchulImmV | Transmission of data to the library |
| § 19 HSchulImmV | Transmission of data to the ministry responsible for higher education |
| § 20 HSchulImmV | Transmission of data to the responsible health insurance fund |
| § 21 HSchulImmV | Retention periods for documents of university examinations and proof of studies |
| § 22 HSchulImmV | Data protection |
4. Hessian Data Protection and Freedom of Information Act
| Section 1 HDSIG | Scope of application |
| Section 3 HDSIG | Processing of personal data, commissioned processing |
| Section 22 HDSIG | Data transfers by public bodies |
| Section 31 HDSIG | Duty to provide information when collecting personal data from the data subject |
| Section 32 HDSIG | Duty to provide information if the personal data was not collected from the data subject |
| Section 33 HDSIG Right of access by the data subject | |
| Section 34 HDSIG | Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) |
| Section 35 HDSIG | Right to object |
| Section 37 HDSIG | Criminal provisions |
| Section 38 HDSIG | Provisions on fines |
5th Penal Code
| § 86 StGB | Dissemination of propaganda material of unconstitutional organisations |
| Section 130 StGB | Incitement of the people |
| Section 166 StGB | Insulting denominations, religious societies and ideological organisations |
| § 184 StGB | Distribution of pornographic writings |
| § 184a StGB | Distribution of violent or animal pornographic writings |
| § 184b StGB | Distribution, acquisition and possession of child pornography |
| § 185ff StGB | Insult, Defamation, Slander, etc. |
| § 202a StGB | Spying on data |
| § 202b StGB | Interception of data |
| Section 202c StGB | Preparation of spying and interception of data |
| Section 202d StGB | Data theft |
| Section 263a StGB | Computer fraud |
| Section 303a StGB | Data alteration |
| § 303b StGB | Computer sabotage |
6th Telecommunications Act
| § 174 TKG | Manual information procedure (Data retention only affects service providers that are publicly accessible. If the services are only accessible to members of Fulda University (computers can only be used with user ID and password in the computer network), these paragraphs do not apply). |
| Section 175 TKG | Obliged parties; compensation |
| Section 176 TKG | Obligations to store traffic data |
| Section 177 TKG | Use of the data |
| Section 178 TKG | Ensuring the security of data |
| Section 179 TKG | Logging |
| § 180 TKG | Catalogue of requirements |
| § 181 TKG | Security concept |
| § 182 TKG | Requests for information from the Federal Intelligence Service |
7th Digital Services Act
| § 5 DDG | General information obligations |
| § 6 DDG | Special information obligations for commercial communications |
| § 33 DDG | Provisions on fines |
8. copyright law
| § 60a-h UrhG | Legally authorised uses for teaching, science and institutions |
| Section 69a-g UrhG | Special provisions for computer programmes |
| Section 106 UrhG | Unauthorised use of copyright-protected works |
| Section 107 UrhG | Unauthorised affixing of the copyright notice |
| Section 108 UrhG | Unauthorised interference with related rights |
| Section 108a UrhG | Unauthorised commercial exploitation |
| Section 108b UrhG | Unauthorised interference with technological protection measures and information required for rights management |