Dr. Robert Selk

Education/ Professional career

• Law studies / legal clerkship: Munich, Los Angeles (USA) and Cape Town (South Africa
• Doctorate in the field of data protection and Internet 
• Postgraduate studies "European and International Business Law" (Degree: Master of Laws, LL.M. EUR
• Certified specialist lawyer for information technology law
• Attorney at law with SSH Rechtsanwälte since 2002

Lecture activity

Regular lecturing on topics of IT and data protection law

Memberships

• German Society for Law and Information Technology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik, DGRI)
• German Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, GRUR)
• German Society for Data Protection and Data Security (Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherheit, GDD)
• German Data Protection Association (Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz, DVD)
• Professional Association of Data Protection Officers (Berufsverband der Datenschutzbeauftragten, BvD)
• Working Group IT Law of the German Bar Association (DAV IT)

Other external activities

• Activity as external data protection officer
• Founder and co-owner of Toedt, Dr. Selk & Coll. GmbH (Software, Marketing & Data Protection)

Publications

1. Data Protection Law

Papers:

• Liability of the company owner or the managing director, in Datenschutz Praxis 10/2019
• To what extent are employees liable for data protection violations?, in Datenschutz Praxis 08/2019
• Is the works council its own data controller? in Datenschutz Praxis 11/2018
• DGRI Opinion on the Draft Law to Strengthen Fair Competition, Dirk Heckmann/Sibylle Gierschmann/Robert Selk , in CR 11/2018
• Is a new wave of warning letters looming from May 2018?, in Datenschutz Praxis 02/2018
• Employee Data Protection under GDPR and DSAnpUG-EU, in Datenschutz Praxis 05/17, p. 17 ff
• Review of Plath "Kommentar zum BDSG und zur DSGVO", in CR 2/2017, R 20
• Project EU GDPR: Project ideas from a practical perspective and a 4-pillar model," PinG 2017, p. 38 ff.
• EU GDPR: New requirements for consent?, DANA, 2/2016
• Data protection law - reconciling law and technology, Anwaltsblatt Karriere, 1/2016
• Data protection - Typical and current weak points in companies, Revisionspraxis, 3/2016
• Data protection officer and works council, Datenschutz Praxis, 1/2016.
• Customer data in companies and company groups, Festschrift Prof. Schneider, Erscheinung 01/14
• Big Data - Was sagt das Datenschutzrecht?, Big Data - Challenge for the Hospitality Industry: 2nd Edition, 12/2013
• Das Schicksal von SaaS- und ASP-Software in der Insolvenz des Anbieter, IT-Rechtsberater 07/2012
• The new “Cookie Laws”: What's coming, what will, eCommerce Magazin, 07/2011
• Data protection in the EU: taking a look at reality, Anw.Bl. 4/2011
• The legal permissions part 1 - 5, Datenschutzpraxis 2009/2010
• Data protection in corporate transactions, RDV 06/2009
• Residual risk in travel agencies, Schwäbische Zeitung, No. 132, 12.06.09
• Payback ruling "Curse or blessing?" E-Commerce-Magazin 02/2009
• The data subject's request for information according to § 34 BDSG, Datenschutzpraxis 1/2009
• Customer data in the hotel industry, RDV (Recht der Datenverarbeitung) 05/2008
•  Information about job applicants, Datenschutzpraxis 7/2006
• Peculiarities of the employment law position of a DPO, Datenschutzpraxis 5/2006
• Data protection compliant "User Help Desk" systems, Data Protection Practice 4/2006
• Police Requests for Information and Data Protection, Data Protection Practice 3/2006
• Automated Online Applications, Data Protection Practice 06/2005
• Danger from Data Protection, Der Hotelier, Issue 03/2005
• Eavesdropping on Emails, Data Protection Practice 04/2005
• BASEL II - Data Protection Requirements, Data Protection Practice 02/2005

Legal Books:

• Permanent co-author of: Datenschutz Management Kompakt, Augsburg 2020
• Co-author of: E-Mail Marketing und DSGVO: Even without consent possible!, Munich 07/2020, ISBN: 979-8656091107
• Co-author in: Knyrim, Das neue Datenschutzrecht in Österreich und der EU, MANZ, Verlag Wien 2016, commentary on Art. 30 (records of processing activities)
• Data Protection and Internet, Osnabrück 2003, ISBN 3-89959-035-X.

Commentary:

• Co-author of Ehmann/Selmayr, EUDSGVO, commentary on Art. 88 GDPR, Munich 2017 / 2018

Legal Handbooks:

• Co-author of Münchener Vertragshandbuch, 8. Auflage, Datenschutz-Hinweise, Munich 05/2020, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG
• Co-author of Münchener Vertragshandbuch, 8. Auflage, Datenschutz-Einwilligung, Munich 05/2020, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG
• Co-author of Münchener Vertragshandbuch, 8. Auflage, Joint Controller, Munich 05/2020, Verlag C.H. Beck oHG
• Author of Information Security Management, Datenschutz in Betriebsvereinbarungen, Cologne 2019, TÜV Media GmbH / TÜV Rheinland Group
• Forgó/Helfrich/Schneider, Betrieblicher Datenschutz, 3rd edition - Chapter 3. Datenschutz und Mitbestimmung, C.H. Beck Verlag 2018

Online Judgment Reviews (www.datenschutz-praxis.de)

• Does a DPO have to review works council agreements? - 02/2016
• Opt-out is possible after all? - 12/2009 – Void Declarations of Consent - 09/2009
• Single-Opt-In or Double-Opt-In? - 08/2009 – Is online debt trading allowed? - 08/2009
• On valid/void declarations of consent - 08/2009 – Even "opt-in" can be ineffective! - 07/2009 
• Video surveillance - The latest decision of the BAG - 04/2009

2. IT law

• Redeker (ed.): Handbook of IT Contracts, ISBN: 978-3-504-56008-9; Dr. Otto Schmidt KG Verlag, Cologne, 2018
• Redeker (ed.): Handbook of IT Contracts, ISBN: 978-3-504-56008-9; Dr. Otto Schmidt KG Verlag, Cologne, 2017
• ASP Contracts in Insolvency, IT Legal Advisor – Web Design Contracts in: Das gelbe Buch, Noerdlingen 2001
• Domain names and German law in: Das gelbe Buch, Noerdlingen 2001