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blogs ONLINE: Mr. Schaar, you are in the online network Facebook registered. That sounds unusual for a data protection ...
Peter Schaar: I think I'm the only official data protection officers in Germany, which is registered in Facebook. My concern is mainly the portal to know, to experiment with virtual experiences and practices to make. There are not only sensitive information about me available, but my messages refer principally to Professional. I have certainly appreciate Facebook. Sometimes I am busy but also on such services.
blogs ONLINE: What?
Schaar: For example, over the complete irrelevance of much of what it is set. There are three types of contributions: once a very personal, when you communicate, how you feel and what you is doing. That one just ate a pizza and have it handled by a not so well received is. It has helped me not really from stool.
Then there are the politicians' accounts, from balloons, and where I sometimes have the feeling they have not even written. But there is also a third type of contributions, which I take seriously. Because participants have a concern and take advantage of the medium, so as to be exchange, and discuss appointments to meet. For me, this is a useful complement to other forms of communication.
blogs ONLINE: dislike you more in social networks?
Schaar: What bothers me most is the thoughtlessness with which such services and use personal information posted on the internet. This is especially the case among young people, but not limited to them. The lightness and spontaneity of the communications practice for many an enormous attraction. In particular children and young people often do not distinguish whether they are in a virtual or a real space stop and give it often inadvertently disclose their privacy.
blogs ONLINE: Is that a reason that staff in companies with more tolerance information from the network call?
Schaar: Absolutely. Among the many personal information on the Internet, are often those which we commonly refer to as compromising. Because it makes for staff, for example, no sense to someone because of party pictures for unsuited to hold while the person who creates it, not oblivion, as a model candidate appears. If the economy as a selection criterion considered, it is even a leg. Regardless, I but by the networks, their preferences in such a way that not all the world to private data. That is not the case. The default settings are present in almost all networks datenschutzunfreundlich.
blogs ONLINE: Now we recognize that privacy is not only on the Internet is needed. Where are lurking in your opinion more privacy risks: on-or offline?
Schaar: The Internet has for the privacy heralded a new era, but of course the actual risks are still predominantly in the real world. Let us take the work: The employer can always learn more about its employees learn - and not just by them personally interviewed or work inspected results, but by using his computer to work was observed. Perhaps this will happen even without the workers there say. Programs that secretly and to record in detail how the PC is used and the results covertly over the internet, unfortunately, are a big seller. This shows that the Internet is not the cause of privacy problems, but they tightened up and we have data protector with great challenges.
blogs ONLINE: In Germany, this form of illegal spying. In Finland, however, is just a law came into force, the workers are allowed, the e-mails of their employees to review. Because of the pressure from Nokia, it will also
"Lex Nokia '. Is such a thing even possible in Germany?
Schaar: I think it at least for currently entirely excluded that such a law in politics or society we would find agreement. Even in the U.S., this form of surveillance in the workplace very widespread, and also permitted. The fact that the now hold in Europe, I find highly problematic.
MAJOR PROJECTS OF THE MARGINS OF STATE
Data Retention
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Since the beginning of 2008, telecom companies store for six months, who's with whom, how long and from where mailed or telephone (mobile / landline) has used the Internet or send faxes has. For Internet service providers, providers of VoIP telephony and e-mail services, the memory requirement of 2009. They should record who when under what IP addresses using the Internet, to whom he e-mails sent and by whom, what he has received. more on blogs KNOW
Federal Trojan
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Federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) wants the Bundeskriminalamt allow computers of suspects secretly by Trojan software to browse, e-mail log files to evaluate. About the planned revision of the BKA Act denies the Government coalition. The software seems to be ready for use: In August 2007, the Ministry of Interior Schäuble of the SPD Parliamentary Group in writing of the so-called "Remote Forensic Software '(Fernforensische software," RFS) could be "a repeal of the currently available development stops immediately completed" his. There were already "part of modules completed. In a ruling on the constitutional protection law of North Rhine-Westphalia continued Verassungsrichter Karlsruhe in the use of such methods at the end of February 2008 limits. more on blogs KNOW
Biometric passport
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Since November 2007, the German registration offices only e-passports of the so-called second generation: In a tiny radio chip in the passport are the finger prints of both index fingers saved? two years since German passports contain a digital version of the passport. Experts criticize the biometrics passport: The passport itself can not determine whether the key of a reader is valid. If the key once cracked, can not be retrofitted. Today, the key is hardly knackbar? but it could in a few years of computing power available quite different. Another risk: Germany, other countries need to read the key pass. What kind of data actually read these countries, whether they save, how they use and protect, Germany can not control. Peter Schaar, Federal Data Protection Officer: "These data could therefore persons into databases." more on blogs KNOW
Electronic health card
2009, a new nationwide health insurance card should be introduced. 30,000 insured test the memory card into seven regions today. A memory chip on the card is initially base data such as name, address, health insurance save, if the patients want it, including emergency information such as blood. Subsequently, the chip but the access to stored on central computers allow digital medical records? here should be controlled by the patient, details of illnesses, injuries, treatments, doctor visits and therapy are stored. In particular, the storage of personal data to central computers makes data protection concerns: Dietmar Müller, spokesman for the Federal Data Protection Commissioner, said in the spring of the Hamburger Abendblatt: "We have reservations with the electronic health card. For privacy, it is a problem if patient data on central storage servers. " Because the data is first collected centrally, it grows not only the risk of hack? Such databases can also be demands fo!
r more analysis options awaken. more on blogs KNOW
blogs ONLINE: Nevertheless, it also happens here time and again that their employees spying. Are the penalties on the disregard of the Data Protection Act are not deterrent enough?
Schaar: The Secret Spying on employees is a violation of the law. As for other privacy violations, the Federal Privacy Act fines and, in particularly serious cases, prison sentences. There are also corresponding fines and criminal proceedings, but only a few final judgments. In comparison to what happens - and I go here by a high number of -, the proportion of judgments negligible.
This is partly due to the fact that the authorities shy away from the instruments to be applied. Another reason is the imperfect laws. The fines are in some cases too low. They take into account, for example, has not yet been the emergence of profits from data misuse. And there is a legal patchwork in Germany and in Europe.
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