Dr Philipp Offenbächer is a lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) with Raue in Berlin. He previously held the position of research assistant for Prof Dr Matthias Schmidt-Preuß at the Institute for Public Law of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. The contribution was published in German in MMR – Zeitschrift für IT-Recht und Digitalisierung (2019) 294-298. For correspondence: <mailto:philipp.offenbaecher@raue.com>.