On 12 July 2018, the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – “BGH”) ruled that a Facebook user account passes to the user’s heirs (Case no. III ZR 183/17).
This is the first time the BGH has had the opportunity to deal with the provisions of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”).
While the full judgment has not yet been published, the BGH’s press release of the same date gives some insight into the BGH’s considerations:
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