Alexander Dix

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Alexander Dix (born January 13, 1951 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ) is a German lawyer . He is vice chairman of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) . From June 1998 to June 2005, Dix was the data protection officer and the right to inspect files for the state of Brandenburg , and from June 2005 to January 2016 the officer for data protection and freedom of information for the state of Berlin .

Life

Dix studied law in Bochum , Hamburg and London from 1969 to 1977 , where he obtained the title of Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1977 . From 1980 to 1982 Dix was a research assistant at the Hans Bredow Institute for Radio and Television at the University of Hamburg, where he also received his doctorate in law in 1984 . From 1982 to 1985 Dix worked as a legal advisor to the city of Heidelberg and from 1985 to 1990 for the Berlin data protection officer. Between 1990 and 1998 he was Deputy Berlin Data Protection Officer. From June 1, 1998 to June 1, 2005 he held the office of the state commissioner for data protection and for the right to inspect files for the state of Brandenburg. When he took up this post in 1998, he was the first Commissioner for Freedom of Information in Germany. On June 2, 2005 he was succeeded by the previous deputy of the Berlin data protection officer, Dagmar Hartge , in office.

Dix has been the data protection and freedom of information officer for the State of Berlin since June 3, 2005, and thus successor to the long-standing data protection officer Hansjürgen Garstka . In this role he also headed the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications - also known as the Berlin Group .

In 2009 Dix had no objection to the publication of the medical records of Klaus Kinski, who died in 1991, against the wishes of his family, on the grounds that the publication of medical records of people of contemporary history was permitted ten years after their death. The Berlin Medical Association was against the publication because patient data were protected by general personal rights even after death.

Dix attracted public attention with the expressed opinion that the control of cell phones brought by students to school by teachers is contrary to telecommunications secrecy. In February 2014, Dix wrote in a guest post in Die Zeit that data retention was superfluous and that there was also the risk of function creep . Dix is ​​co-editor of the Freedom of Information and Right to Information Yearbook.

At the end of March 2015, Dix announced that he would stop his ten-year activity as data protection officer for the state of Berlin. His second term ended at the beginning of June 2015, but he remained in office on a provisional basis. Maja Smoltczyk was appointed as his successor on January 29, 2016 .

In January 2017, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) presented Alexander Dix with the International Privacy Champion's Award.

Publications

(Abstract)

  • Equality by law. British legislation against discrimination against women in working life - a model for the Federal Republic of Germany? (= Publications from the Institute for International Affairs at the University of Hamburg . Volume 15). Nomos, Baden-Baden 1984, ISBN 3-7890-1059-6 (also dissertation, University of Hamburg 1983/84).
  • ECHELON on the parliamentary test bench . In: Data protection and data security , Volume 24, No. 11, Braunschweig 2000, ISSN  0724-4371 , pp. 659-661 (PDF; 44.3 kB) .
  • The amendment to the Stasi Records Act. In: Journal of Property and Real Estate Law (VIZ) , No. 1/2003, ISSN  1432-8933 , pp. 1–5.
  • Data protection and freedom of information. State, federal, European and international law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6695-9 .
  • The EU Commission's Data Reform After Snowden's Summer . In: Intereconomics , Volume 48, No. 5, September / October 2013, pp. 268–271.
  • Human rights as the limit of secrecy . In: Alexander Dix et al. (Ed.): Freedom of information and the right to information yearbook 2013 . Lexxion, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86965-232-0 , pp. 249-250.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The medical record should stay forever ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Hannes Heine: Private matter violent videos . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 3, 2007. Accessed February 4, 2014.
  3. ↑ Alexander Dix: Data retention is superfluous . In: Die Zeit , February 8, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ Fatina Keilani: The uncomfortable watchdog leaves - data protection officer Alexander Dix presents his last report . In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 25, 2015, accessed on March 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ( Memento from July 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), datenschutz-berlin.de, accessed on March 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ Maja Smoltczyk appointed as Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information . ( Memento of July 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, January 29, 2016, accessed on February 27, 2016.
  7. ↑ Electronic Privacy Information Center: EPIC - EPIC Gives 2017 International Privacy Award to Alexander Dix. Retrieved January 28, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ Press release: Alexander Dix is ​​“International Privacy Champion 2017” | EAID. Retrieved January 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Dix, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and data protection expert
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe