A woman parked too long in a supermarket parking lot. The parking lot operator requested and received the owner details from the Federal Motor Transport Authority in order to impose sanctions.
The owner of the car found out about this, she filed an urgent lawsuit to stop the data from being passed on. However, the Schleswig-Holstein administrative court rejected the application. The decisive factor in allowing the data to be passed on was that the parking lot was accessible to the general public. This is regulated in Section 39 (Paragraph 1) of the Road Traffic Act.