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Dr. iur Raphael Hoffmann

Certified Information Privacy Professional (EU+US)

Raphael Hoffmann has been working in external data protection consulting since 2014. ...

Defining characteristics of his career include building data protection management systems for well-known online shops and developing privacy solutions for popular smart devices. Raphael has in-house experience in the implementation of European and non-European data protection requirements as well as in the global roll-out of group company requirements. He teaches data protection law at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.

Studies & qualifications: law, social sciences and protestant theology, PhD on the topic "Profiling under the GDPR". CIPP/E+US and ISO27001-Auditor.





“Transparency requirements regarding data processings without active participation of the data subject – limitation of the applicability of Art. 13 GDPR“ Contribution in ZD 2022 (together with Dr. Christian Jaksch)

“Facebook-Profiling for marketing purposes – compliant with data protection law?“ Contribution in GRUR 2021 (together with Dominik Schmidt)

“Profiling under GDPR – digital personality profiles caught between business interests and personality rights“ Monograph (Doctor thesis), Nomos, series “Frankfurt Studies on Data Protection”

“Data Protection at Mobility Service Providers“ Presentation at the DSRI-Herbstakademie 2017 and article in the conference proceedings

“Employee Evaluation by Colleagues – compliant with data protection law?“ Contribution in ZD and ArbRAktuell 2017 (together with Alexander Wolf)

“Data Protection at Start-Ups“ Presentation at Spreeknie TGS Technology and Start-up Center 2016

“Acquiring and Using Personal Data for Marketing Purposes: the boundaries in terms of data protection law“ Contribution in PinG 2015 (together with Simone Rosenthal)

“Acquisition and Usage of Personal Data for Marketing Purposes“ Presentation at the Cottbuser Medienrechtstage 2015

“Video Surveillance of Persons: legally controversial“ Contribution in Secupedia 2015 (together with Simone Rosenthal)

“The Balancing and Deduction Criteria in Advertisement Law“ Monograph (Master thesis)

“Better, cheaper, more reputable: On the legality of quality-oriented advertisement in Germany“ Contribution in the Yearbook of Market Entry Advisory 2014

“Can discriminating advertisement be legitimate?“ Contribution in Migration Business 2013

“Legal Boundaries of emotion-oriented Advertisement“ Presentation at the Salzburg Tübingen Rhetoric Days 2013






Data Protection: for sustainable business success.



Data protection has become an essential element of business compliance. And this not only in Germany and Europe but globally.

The respective requirements become more and more complex: Meanwhile, each data-driven business sector and each data processing area is governed by special regulations whose neglection may lead to high sanctions.

Data protection compliance that does not slow down business processes but, on the contrary, optimizes those processes, is characterized for me today by being development-oriented, pragmatic and reliable, regardless of whether in consulting or in workshops.