JG - Washington.   In his analysis, Tim Wittwer provides an overview of rules to protect consumer privacy in online databases. He illustrates the issue in the context of an injunction by a German district court against a discount service operator. The court enjoined the use of a certain contract terms which violate the German Data Protection Statute. A non-profit consumer rights group had argued that defendant Payback's contract terms for the use of consumer data in its online databases were incompatible with privacy obligations.

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