Constitutional protection at data protection conference
On June 15 and 16, the conference "DuD 2015 - Data Protection and Data Security" will take place in Berlin. Among others, the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen, will speak there on the topic of data protection and intelligence gathering.
Since the NSA surveillance affair and in the wake of various terrorist attacks around the world, there has been repeated controversy about whether intelligence surveillance should be expanded or rather restricted from a data protection point of view. Therefore, the lecture by Dr. Hans-Georg Maaßen at the annual Computas-The "DuD 2015" data protection congress, which will be held in Berlin on June 15 and 16, 2015, is eagerly awaited.
In addition, European data protection law continues to face realignment, and the draft German IT security law is being discussed, so conference participants are sure to learn a lot of new things.
This year, the problem of balancing national security interests and data protection will be addressed in particular depth, but the topic of cloud computing will also be dealt with intensively. In addition, many other topics will be discussed that may arise in the participants' everyday professional lives, such as app use, video surveillance or when employers use personality tests. Prominent experts, including Andrea Vosshoff, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, and Ulrich Kelber, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, will be present to comment on current issues. In addition, data privacy and IT security officers from Deutsche Bahn, Daimler and the German Federal Employment Agency, among others, will report on their professional backgrounds.
