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                Date: 1998-11-15
                 
                 
                De-Datenschuetzer: Privacy ins Grundgesetz
                
                 
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      q/depesche  98.11.15/1 
 
De-Datenschützer: Privacy ins Grundgesetz  
 
Nicht ganz taufrisch & anscheinend an der  
deutschsprachigen Öffentlichkeit ziemlich vorbeigegangen ist  
der Zehnpunkte/appell von fünf deutschen  
Datenschutzbeauftragten an die neue Bundesregierung.  
Tenor: Das Datenschutzgesetz.de bedarf dringend der  
Anpassung an die technischen Gegebenheiten, das Recht  
auf Schutz der Privatsphäre gehört ins Grundgesetz. 
 
post/scrypt: Ganz allgemein ist anzumerken, dass seit dem  
Zwist EU/USA rund um die Eu-Direktive zum Datenschutz  
einschlägige US-Gazetten plötzlich in Permanenz  
Europa/themen spielen.  
 
 
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Mary Lisbeth D'Amico  
MUNICH  Just as Europe and the U.S. face off over  
diverging views on data privacy, five German state  
governments' data-privacy agencies have asked the German  
federal government to strengthen the country's already  
stringent data-privacy laws.  
... 
The data-protection agencies last week submitted a 10-point  
plan to their state legislatures and to Germany's new left-of- 
center government. The proposal includes a demand to  
amend the German constitution with a specific "right to data  
protection privacy," as well as calls to re-evaluate the  
government's encryption requirements. It also asks that  
regulations that govern corporate control of personal data be  
tightened.  
.... 
Some industry participants also see little sense in changing  
the laws on a domestic level, without the approval of other  
nations. In Europe, European Union members have to adhere  
to a new privacy directive that went into effect Oct. 25. 
.... 
The EU's privacy directive takes a much stricter view of data  
protection than in the U.S., allowing individuals, whose data  
is collected by companies to review their data, to correct it  
and limit its use. For now, the EU has agreed not to take  
punitive measures against U.S. companies that do not  
adhere to the EU directive until a compromise is worked out.  
 
But Helmut Baumler, head of the data-protection agency in  
the state of Schleswig-Holstein, said that the data-protection  
agencies are mainly seeking to simplify privacy legislation,  
rather than add to the tangle of rules.  
.... 
The data-protection agencies are also more concerned with  
other parts of the plan  such as the proposals to modernize  
data-protection laws and make sure that encryption is  
effective  than the proposed change to the constitution, he  
said. 
.... 
Particularly in the case of encryption, the agencies feel that  
regulations have gone too far in the direction of protecting the  
security requirements of the government, versus those of  
German citizens, according to Baumler. The agencies also  
want to encourage the use of technologies that don't leave  
behind personal data evidence, such as smart cards.  
.... 
The proposal includes calls for:  
 
encouraging strong cryptography to protect data;  
 
a reassessment of when the federal government is allowed to  
interfere with data for security reasons, such as for fighting  
terrorism;  
 
modernizing and condensing the country's data-protection  
laws, which were first written when mainframe technologies  
were dominant;  
 
strengthening the protection of data controlled by the private  
economy. "Whereas government organizations must submit  
to a relatively strict data-protection regime, corporate  
databases with personal data are growing unattended,"  
according to the proposal. It expressed concern over the data  
collected by banks, mail-order companies, and other private  
corporations. "The current regulations give those involved little  
protection," the proposal said.  
... 
the right to "unsupervised phone calls." The proposal slams a  
provision in Germany's multimedia law requiring  
telecommunications companies to install at their own cost  
equipment that lets the government listen in on phone calls.  
 
full story 
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