Privacy policy reform in rowing back.

Where the federal government backed off from the Data? Last year, they have a better protection of consumer data promised. Now the industry fears about jobs and income - the Bundestag discusses a defusing of the proposed laws.

 

The internal committee of the Bundestag today deals with the proposed law against data misuse. According to the company now also ask leaders of the SPD and the Union, that the draft presented in December for a better protection of consumer data is defused.

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After the recent scandals: consumption data should be better protected

After last year, numerous cases of illegal trade with records were known, announced the federal government, the federal Privacy Act to be extended. It requires the user to transfer his data for advertising purposes will explicitly agree. Previously customers had only the possibility of a transfer to explicitly contradict one another. One option which was exercised only rarely.

Publishers, mail order companies, banks and insurers, and researchers think are against the amendment privacy storm. They were afraid of job losses and tax losses. Without address lists across industries would form the backbone broken, lobbyists said. After receipt of the bill reached the Bundestag a flood of protest letters. Union Franktionsvize Wolfgang Bosbach (CDU) told the New Osnabrücker newspaper (NOZ), which entitle the concerns of the economy should be taken seriously.

Should the draft in its original form through, consumers, businesses, the data only with written consent to do so solely for their own advertising is no approval necessary. This deprives the new economy, the basis for canvassing, so Union interior expert Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU) in the NOZ.

While some politicians promote it, to find a solution, both for the sectors is satisfactory, as well as the privacy expectations, warns the chairman of the Interior Committee in the Bundestag, Sebastian Edathy (SPD), prior to major concessions to the economy. "Details about the design you will be able to talk, in doubt, but the consumer must have priority," said Edathy. The coalition must stand on its promise, after the recent privacy scandals about a paradigm shift to happen.

At today's hearing the Bundestag, the head of the Independent Center for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), Dr. Thilo Weichert, participated as an expert. He believes the changes would not hurt the economy. Would be reached with the law expected exactly the opposite: "an intensified and enhanced dialogue between consumers and the economy."