The railway had a whopping 148-page long response to the lawsuit written (including many meaningless appendices). In it she provides a detailed insight into her internal corporate organization and processes - but she does not reveal any further details about data processing in the app. Very briefly stated on these many pages: Deutsche Bahn would like to continue tracking its users without giving them an opportunity to stop this. Particularly strange arguments And then there are some rather strange arguments that the railways use. Among other things, the company claims that our lawsuit is inadmissible.
Because we would sue against the use of cookies, but at the same time we would have consciously caused the use of these cookies on our plaintiff's smartphone. In other words, we are accused of opening the app and collecting evidence about Cayman Islands Phone Number List what the app does. In the eyes of the railway, customers should only buy tickets well, but please don't take a look under the hood. The railway cites, among other things, the following as its own evidence: The “consultation” with the state data protection authority The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information is responsible for the app. Unfortunately, attached emails intended as evidence prove... nothing.
Except that the railway probably gave a presentation on the cookie banner to employees of the state data protection authority and is “looking forward to receiving feedback on this”. Unfortunately, the reader will not find out whether there was a response from the data protection authority and what it looked like. A certificate from the DB Group's data protection advisory board. The Deutsche Bahn's data protection advisory board awarded the railway a "Silver Data Protection Award" for the DB app's cookie banner. Second place in our own store. Well, congratulations. Our response We have already sent the court our short response to the railway's written statement and explained again why the railway cannot simply carry on as before.