von Peter Schaar (21. März 2024) Seit letztem Herbst sind wir Zeugen eines unwürdigen Gerangels um die Wahl des oder der Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit, dessen reguläre Amtszeit Anfang Januar 2024 endete. Der bisherige Amtsinhaber, Prof. Ulrich Kelber, hatte frühzeitig erklärt, dass er für eine weitere fünfjährige ...

Press release of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) from 21.02.2024 These days, the British High Court will decide in the last instance on the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. The US government is accusing him of espionage for publishing information about alleged war crimes committed by the US military on the ...

By Peter Schaar, European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection, former Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. On November 1, 2021, China's data protection law will come into force. Will this dispel all concerns about China's handling of personal data? Can European companies trust that their data will be processed ...

Conference language: German The Corona pandemic has brought home office, homeschooling and digital communication into the spotlight. At the same time, the question arises as to how digital tools can contribute to containing the incidence of infection and to organizing the vaccination campaign that has just begun. The increasing importance of digital processes is also bringing data protection more ...

By Peter Schaar Just before Christmas, the European Commission gifted us with a draft Digital Services Act (DSA) - COM (2020) 825 final of 15.12.2020. The new regulatory framework aims to better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online, create a powerful and clear framework for transparency and accountability of online platforms, while improving ...

From Peter Schaar, 23.11.2020 In the discussion on measures to contain the corona pandemic, data protection is increasingly coming under scrutiny. Is the second wave of corona and the continuing sharp rise in the number of infections due to the fact that in Germany - unlike in some Southeast Asian countries - not all available personal data is collected and used? ...

Von Peter Schaar, 16.07.2020 With its decision today, the European Court of Justice has again underlined the importance of the fundamental right to data protection guaranteed by Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Almost five years after its landmark decision of 6 October 2015, in which the highest European court declared the then Safe Harbor Agreement invalid ("Schrems I"), the European ...

Berlin, 26 March 2020 The containment of infections with the novel coronavirus is an unprecedented challenge for democratic societies in terms of its scale and globality. They must face the pandemic and its consequences with determination while preserving their fundamental values. Another cause for concern, however, is the uncertainty in the application of data protection rules. ...

by Peter Schaar (6. 3. 2020) These days we are witnessing how carelessly fundamental and human rights are being treated in the face of supposedly existential threats. While Greece reacts to the increase in the number of refugees on the European external borders provoked by Turkey by "suspending" the human right to asylum, in Germany, in view of the increasing number of people infected with the Covid19 virus, there ...

By Peter Schaar, 15 January 2020 The current constitutional complaint against the Federal Intelligence Service Act before the Federal Constitutional Court is about more than the constitutionality of a federal law. The central question is rather whether German authorities are bound by the fundamental rights guaranteed by the German Basic Law even when they are active abroad. The focus here is on the fundamental ...