The Bundeskartellamt and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have extended their cooperation in the area of digital consumer protection. Since 2021, the two authorities have pooled their expertise for the benefit of consumers. Apart from maintaining a close dialogue, they assist each other in fulfilling their consumer protection-related tasks – for example, the BSI carried out a technical analysis alongside the Bundeskartellamt’s sectector inquiry into messenger and video servicesor inquiry into messenger and video services. The cooperation has now been extended for another three years. Claudia Plattner, President of the BSI, and Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartellamt, have signed a declaration of intent to this effect.
Source: German Bundeskartellamt
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