Viktoria Schmittmann

Education

• 2009-2013 Law studies at the University of Passau
• 2014-2016 Legal clerkship at the Regional Court of Regensburg, elective station at a Big Four auditing firm in Düsseldorf
• 2016 – 2022 Lawyer at two international commercial law firms in Düsseldorf in the technology, media and telecommunications and energy sectors
• 2017- 2018 Master of Laws (LL.M.) in information law at the University of Oldenburg
• 2018-2021 Study of business informatics (Master of Science, M.Sc.) at the University of Duisburg-Essen with a focus on digital transformation, IT security and compliance
• 2019 Accreditation as Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E), International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), USA
• 2019 Specialist lawyer for information technology law
• 2020 Doctorate at the Technical University of Dresden on a data protection topic
• 2022 Data protection auditor (TÜV)

Memberships

• Gesellschaft für Informatik eV (GI), specialist group for business informatics
• German Society for Law and Computer Science (DGRI)
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), USA
• Friends of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf eV

Focus

• Data Protection Law / Compliance
• IT law
• telecommunications law
• energy law

Activities

• Lecturer for data protection law and cloud services as part of the certification as Data Privacy Professional Microsoft 365 (DPPM) in the Executive Education program of the BSP Business & Law School Berlin
• Lecturer for IT and media law and compliance at the FOM University of Economics and Management

Publications

• Commentary on §§ 55, 56, 57, 58 and §§ 63, 64 Metering Point Operation Act (MsbG) and an appendix "Digital Transformation in the Energy Sector" to § 54 MsbG, in: Säcker/Zwanziger (ed.), Berlin Commentary on Energy Law, Volume 6, Measuring Point Operation Act, 5th revised and expanded edition, Frankfurt am Main 2022
• Immaterial damages according to Art. 82 GDPR: claim can be assigned, but damage can hardly be substantiated?, in: Datenschutz-Berater 2022, p. 25-27
• Interdisciplinarity of business informatics and law - an agile evergreen approach to the legally compliant design of integrated and process-oriented information systems, in: Taeger, In the focus of legal development - The digitization of the world, DSRITB 2021, p. 627 ff.
• Right to a copy according to Art. 15 GDPR with regard to the tax office’s report, in: Betriebs-Berater 2021, p. 2917-2918
• The possibility to inspect exams does not replace a free copy according to Art. 15 Para. 3 DSGVO, in: Datenschutz-Berater 2021, p. 274-276
• Member States’ room for maneuver according to Art. 6 Para. 2, Para. 3 and Art. 23 GDPR using the example of the data subject’s right to information – suum cuique or singularia non sunt extendenda?, in: Taeger, Accompanying the change – IT legal challenges of digitization , DSRITB 2020, p. 319 ff.
• Regulation of data communication in smart energy grids; Telecommunications and data protection law implications of the smart meter rollout, in: Taeger (ed.), The Power of Data and Algorithms - Regulation of IT, IoT and AI, DSRITB 2019, p. 731 ff.