News For the latest press releases of the FDPIC please click on the following link News Agreement concerning Google Street View Bern, 18.12.2009 - On Wednesday, Google and Hanspeter Thuer, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FD

Preface All too often the Data Protection Commissioner finds himself in the role of Sisyphus, that tragic figure from Greek mythology condemned for all eternity to roll a huge rock up a mountain only to watch it roll back down to the bottom again. Every t

Foreword September 11 2001 was the key theme of my foreword last year. The focus of my thoughts was the question of how a free and democratic state governed by the rule of law can meet this challenge without compromising the basic constitutional rights. W

Foreword The 11th September abruptly changed the debate on the relationship between public security and the protection of personal freedoms. Ever since the two aircraft reduced the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York to smouldering rubble, t

Foreword Opportunity makes the thief, or so the saying goes. Apply this analogy to data protection, and one could say: every new database whets the appetite for new uses. Why does this pose a problem? There is a real risk that important principles set out

Eidgenössischer Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragter Hanspeter Thür, Beauftragter Jean-Philippe Walter, Stellvertreter Support Doris Blattmann (2.6) Einheit 2 Marc Buntschu Einheit 3 Ständiges Sekretariat des EDÖB Jean-Philippe Walter, Leiter

Pressespiegel des Eidgenössischen Datenschutzund Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragten Revue de Presse du Préposé fédéral à la protection des données et à la transparence Rivista della stampa dell´ Incaricato federale della protezione dei dati e della tr

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