Data Protection Commissioner
am 13.03.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. The German federal data protection office has a new website. The English version explains: The data protection commissioner of each land is your interlocutor if you are dealing with privacy issues in the administrations of the respective land or one of its municipalities. and provides useful links to the interlocutors. The new site addresses a wide range of issues, including International Affaires. It also provides an Imprint which appears to serve the purpose of identifying persons and publishing data elsewhere …
The UK Information Commissioner
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Data Protection in UK. Zusammenfassung: Link zur Homepage des britischen Datenschutzbeauftragten.…
Access to Data at ISP
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Piercing the layers of personal data protection in Germany, and much of the European Union, depends on the statute that applies to the origin, type and location of data. Generally, the law of personal information is person-cen…
Issues in Digital Law
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Lawgical published a fascinating summary of last weeks conference on issues in electronic data processing and the law. The conference in Saarbrücken covered issues ranging from data processing via online transactions to…
German Fear of Anonymity
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Another nail in the wireless Internet coffin. By summary order, the Düsseldorf appellate court announced that WiFi users should install password protection and encryption in order to insulate themselves from contributory…
Diet Targets Privacy
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. On January 18, 2007, the Berlin parliament approved a draft statute, Telemediengesetz, to replace current statutes governing Internet and media activities. Among provisions supposedly beneficial to consumers are rehashed priva…
Biometrics Are Not Reliable, Says EU Data Protection Expert
Law & Justice / Biometrics are not reliable, says EU data protecton expert (source: EUobserver) An EU data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has criticised the use of biometrics as unique identifiers for European citizens, saying fingerprint or DNA identifica…
Fear of Blogging
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. The German blog scene fears restrictive measures that Austria has already enacted. Effective July 1, 2005, any person publishing anything on the Internet in Austria will need to place identifying information on the web site. G…
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