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Federal German Data Protection Commissioner
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI, ), referring to either a person or the agency they lead, is tasked with supervising data protection as well as acting in an ombudsman function in freedom of information. The latter was introduced with the German Freedom of Information Act on 1 January 2006. In 2016, it became an independent federal agency under EU regulations.Sertan Sanderson (17 June 2015)Commissioner slams data retention policies''Deutsche Welle''. Organization Before the commencement of the German Freedom of Information Act, the title was "Federal Commissioner for Data Protection (BfD)". The Commissioner is nominated by the German Federal Government and elected by the German Bundestag. During their time in office, the Commissioner receives remuneration in the amount commensurate with a federal official in salary group B 11. In this regard, the Commissioner's status is that of a public law official but not that of a civil serv ...
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BFDI
The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI, ), referring to either a person or the agency they lead, is tasked with supervising Information privacy, data protection as well as acting in an ombudsman function in freedom of information. The latter was introduced with the Freedom of information laws by country#Germany, German Freedom of Information Act on 1 January 2006. In 2016, it became an independent federal agency under EU regulations.Sertan Sanderson (17 June 2015)Commissioner slams data retention policies''Deutsche Welle''. Organization Before the commencement of the German Freedom of Information Act, the title was "Federal Commissioner for Data Protection (BfD)". The Commissioner is nominated by the German Federal Government and elected by the Deutscher Bundestag, German Bundestag. During their time in office, the Commissioner receives remuneration in the amount commensurate with a federal official in salary group B 11. In this regard, ...
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Alfred Einwag
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Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Of Germany
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Data Protection Authorities
Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum is an individual value in a collection of data. Data are usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and may themselves be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Data are commonly used in scientific research, economics, and virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices (such as the consumer price index), unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represent the raw facts and figures from which useful information can be extracted. Data are collected using techniques such as m ...
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Information Commissioner
The role of information commissioner differs from nation to nation. Most commonly it is a title given to a government regulator in the fields of freedom of information and the protection of personal data in the widest sense. The office often functions as a specialist ombudsman service. Australia The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has functions relating to freedom of information and privacy, as well as information policy. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, which was the national privacy regulator, was integrated into the OAIC on 1 November 2010. There are three independent commissioners in the OAIC: the Australian Information Commissioner, the Freedom of Information Commissioner, and the Privacy Commissioner. Bangladesh The Information Commission of Bangladesh promotes and protects access to information. It is formed under the Right to Information Act, 2009, whose stated object is to empower the citizens by promoting transparency and accoun ...
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Ulrich Kelber
Ulrich Wolfgang Kelber (born 29 March 1968) is a German former politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since 7 January 2019. From 2000 to 2019, he was the member of the Bundestag for Bonn. Life Ulrich Kelber was born in Bamberg and grew up in Bonn. From 1987 to 1993 he studied computer science and biology at the University of Bonn. He worked in IT until 2002. Political career Career in local politics Kelber became a member of the SPD in 1985 and was the local party chairman in Bonn from 2001 to 2008, and a member of the SPD executive board 2009 to 2011. Member of the German Parliament, 2000–2019 Kelber became a member of the Bundestag on 1 September 2000, replacing Rudolf Dreßler who left. He won re-election as directly elected member for the constituency of Bonn in each of the elections from 2002 to 2017. In parliament, Kelber was a member of the Committee on the Env ...
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Andrea Voßhoff
Andrea Astrid Voßhoff is a German former lawyer who switched to full-time politics in mid-career ( CDU). She served as a member of the Bundestag between 1998 and 2013 when, as a "party list" candidate, she narrowly failed to secure re-election in the Brandenburg-Potsam electoral district. At the end of 2013, it was announced that Voßhoff was appointed to serve as Germany's data protection commissioner in succession to Peter Schaar, with effect from 6 January 2014. The appointment drew widespread criticism from those who saw it as a consolation prize for a politician who had served her party loyally in the Bundestag for fifteen years. Opponents pointed to a parliamentary voting record that showed no great affection for the right to personal privacy. She had, indeed, supported a number of controversial proposals and pieces of government legislation in respect of matters such as data retention, online data access involving (in particular) child abuse, government acce ...
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Hans Peter Bull
Hans Peter Bull (born 17 October 1936) is a German constitutional lawyer and jurist. He served between 1978 and 1985 as West Germany's first Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. It was widely believed that he was appointed at the eleventh hour only after the anticipated appointee, Spiros Simitis, had turned the job down because previously agreed levels of resourcing were dramatically cut at the last minute. Bull took on the job in an atmosphere of continuing scepticism over the levels of government commitment to data protection and Information Technology legislation more generally. Life Bull was born at Lübben (Spreewald), a small town in the marshy countryside to the south of Berlin. Hans-Joachim Bull (1906–1977), his father, was a lawyer and a judge whom Bull has described (in print) as "a self-confident choleric man with rigid principles, most of which dated back to the days of the kaiser...". The family - Hans Peter Bull, his two-year-old sister, the ...
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Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider
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Ulrich Kelber
Ulrich Wolfgang Kelber (born 29 March 1968) is a German former politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since 7 January 2019. From 2000 to 2019, he was the member of the Bundestag for Bonn. Life Ulrich Kelber was born in Bamberg and grew up in Bonn. From 1987 to 1993 he studied computer science and biology at the University of Bonn. He worked in IT until 2002. Political career Career in local politics Kelber became a member of the SPD in 1985 and was the local party chairman in Bonn from 2001 to 2008, and a member of the SPD executive board 2009 to 2011. Member of the German Parliament, 2000–2019 Kelber became a member of the Bundestag on 1 September 2000, replacing Rudolf Dreßler who left. He won re-election as directly elected member for the constituency of Bonn in each of the elections from 2002 to 2017. In parliament, Kelber was a member of the Committee on the Env ...
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Andrea Voßhoff
Andrea Astrid Voßhoff is a German former lawyer who switched to full-time politics in mid-career ( CDU). She served as a member of the Bundestag between 1998 and 2013 when, as a "party list" candidate, she narrowly failed to secure re-election in the Brandenburg-Potsam electoral district. At the end of 2013, it was announced that Voßhoff was appointed to serve as Germany's data protection commissioner in succession to Peter Schaar, with effect from 6 January 2014. The appointment drew widespread criticism from those who saw it as a consolation prize for a politician who had served her party loyally in the Bundestag for fifteen years. Opponents pointed to a parliamentary voting record that showed no great affection for the right to personal privacy. She had, indeed, supported a number of controversial proposals and pieces of government legislation in respect of matters such as data retention, online data access involving (in particular) child abuse, government acce ...
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