Privacy Commissioner warns of new threats from the Internet

Privacy Commissioner warns of new threats from the Internet 

The Notice must be in the opinion of Saxony-Anhalt to strengthen data protection officer Harald von Bose, so that freedom be preserved. With this message of Bose on Wednesday its annual report covering the period 1 April 2009 to 31 Presented in March 2011. The Internet, including cloud computing and mobile communications, and the powers of intervention to combat terrorism would bring new threats to personal privacy with it says Bose. 

The Notice must be in the fields of law, technology, education or media literacy and better management control, said Bose. It is not enough to put on industry self-regulation and social networks, then would the protection of fundamental rights, of the incumbent government to come shortly. Consumers, workers and minors need clearer rules. 

Ten years after the attacks of 11 September 2001 it was time to evaluate the existing powers of intervention to combat terrorism and to abstain from further without occasion saves. The retention of telecommunications data would in the opinion of the Federal Constitutional Court in March 2010 will not simply be reinstated without loss of fundamental rights. 

As a leading focus of the two reporting years by Bose including the illegal storage of data by the constitutional protection of minors on.In addition, the Justice Department announced in 2007 data protection plan have not yet submitted. The Privacy Commissioner has supported the State Statistical Office in preparing the population and housing census and claims to reach concrete improvements, such as the census implementation law of the country. Bose criticism that too many single statistical work such as the digitization of soil survey have been outsourced.