Constanze Kurz

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Constanze Kurz at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2018)
Constanze Kurz at the CCC Annual Review 2013 with Frank Rieger

Constanze Kurz (born March 2, 1974 in East Berlin ) is a German computer scientist , non-fiction author and spokeswoman for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). She has particularly emerged in the field of data protection .

Life

After childhood and youth in Berlin, she first studied economics there before turning to computer science. After studying computer science, she devoted herself to research focusing on surveillance technology, ethics , data protection and data security . From 2005 to 2011, Kurz was a research assistant in the Computer Science in Education and Society group of Professor Wolfgang Coy at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She published her dissertation on voting computers with the title Electronic election workers in democracy: the status quo in political elections in 2013. Until September 2014, Kurz worked as a scientific project manager at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences , and since February 2015 she has been in Part-time member of the editorial team at Netzpolitik.org .

Kurz is involved in the Society for Computer Science (GI), there since 2003 in the Computer Science & Ethics department and as deputy spokeswoman for the management group of the GI Department of Computer Science and Society, and is a member of the advisory board of the Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility . In the Chaos Computer Club e. V., the largest European hacker association , she is a volunteer spokesperson.

The left faction named Kurz as an expert for the Enquête Commission Internet and Digital Society of the German Bundestag . As a technical expert, she advised the Federal Constitutional Court on the complaint proceedings against voting computers , data retention , the anti-terror database and the state Trojan in the BKA Act .

She was a member of the jury of the ideas competition "Forgetting on the Internet", which was carried out by the network policy project group of the Federal Ministry of the Interior until August 31, 2011.

In February 2012 the non-party Kurz was nominated by the Greens for the office of data protection officer in the state of Thuringia, but lost with 34 of the 82 valid votes against Lutz Hasse , who was set up by the governing coalition of CDU and SPD , who received 45 votes.

Kurz is the editor and author of numerous works (see below). In her blogs, essays and, since 2010, in her bi-weekly column From the engine room in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she draws attention to security gaps and monopolies in the field of new technologies and at the same time shows democratic alternatives.

Awards

  • In 2011, Computerwoche placed Kurz in 38th place among the 100 “most important personalities in German IT”. In this ranking she was rated the third most important woman after Martina Koederitz and Regine Stachelhaus .
  • April 20, 2013 Awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal by the Theodor Heuss Foundation for their exemplary democratic behavior.
  • 2014 Tolerance Award of the Evangelical Academy Tutzing in the category of civil courage
  • September 15, 2014: As part of the Science Year 2014 initiative The Digital Society of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Society for Information Technology, she was honored with the award of Germany's Digital Minds . The award goes to those who drive digital development in Germany with their ideas and projects .
  • November 19, 2014: She was chosen by the jury and audience of the “Edition F” magazine as one of the “25 women for the digital future”.

Fonts

  • as editor together with Sandro Gaycken : 1984.exe - Social, political and legal aspects of modern surveillance technologies . transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-766-0 .
  • together with Debora Weber-Wulff , Christina Class, Wolfgang Coy , David Zellhöfer: Conscience bites: Ethical problems in computer science. Biometrics - data protection - intellectual property . transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1221-9 .
  • together with Udo Thiedeke: Picnic with Cyborgs - An interdisciplinary conversation about everyday networking . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-67856-3 .
  • together with Frank Rieger : Die Datenfresser: How internet companies and the state incorporate our personal data and how we regain control over it. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-048518-2 .
  • as editor together with Andrea Knaut, Christian Kühne, Jörg Pohle, Rainer Rehak, Stefan Ullrich: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Turing Galaxy . Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-86991-697-2 .
  • Electronic election workers in democracy. The status quo in political elections . Humboldt University of Berlin, dissertation, 2013.
  • together with Frank Rieger : Arbeitsfrei: A journey of discovery to the machines that replace us , Riemann Verlag, Munich October 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-50155-9 .
  • together with Frank Rieger : Cyberwar: The Danger from the Net. Who threatens us and how we can defend ourselves , C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10351-7 .

Opinions

  • Opinion to the Federal Constitutional Court (2 BvC 3/07, 2 BvC 4/07): Description and evaluation of the investigations on NEDAP voting computers, together with Rop Gonggrijp and Frank Rieger, May 30, 2007
  • Opinion to the Federal Constitutional Court (1 BvR 256/08, 1 BvR 263/08, 1 BvR 586/08) on data retention, together with Frank Rieger, May 9, 2009
  • NSA scandal : Kurz filed a criminal complaint against the federal government on January 29, 2014
  • Opinion to the Federal Constitutional Court (1 BvR 966/09, 1 BvR 1140/09) on the BKA law and the use of state trojans, together with Dirk Engling, Thorsten Schröder and Frank Rieger, 7 July 2015

Web links

Commons : Constanze Kurz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Will: The guests in the studio. The First , July 3, 2013, archived from the original on July 6, 2013 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ Anne Klesse: Berlin walk. The whole world is made up of data. In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 10, 2008
  3. ^ Website at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Computer Science in Education and Society
  4. ↑ Dissertation in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ^ Profile on the pages of the German Bundestag
  6. ↑ Constanze Kurz. ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Entry at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / inka.htw-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Markus Beckedahl: On our own behalf: Constanze Kurz strengthens our team . In: netzpolitik.org , February 17, 2015. Retrieved February 17, 2015.
  8. ^ Advisory board of the FIfF . In: fiff.de , accessed on April 15, 2013
  9. ↑ Section Computer Science and Ethics ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fg-ie.gi.de
  10. ^ List of the members of the study commission on bundestag.de
  11. ↑ Result as desired . In: Der Spiegel , accessed on September 2, 2014.
  12. ^ Judgment of the First Senate of March 2, 2010 - 1 BvR 256/08, 1 BvR 263/08, 1 BvR 586/08 -, Federal Constitutional Court, accessed on January 24, 2011.
  13. ^ Hearing of the First Senate on November 6, 2012 - 1 BvR 1215/07, Federal Constitutional Court, accessed on November 7, 2012.
  14. ↑ Hearing of the First Senate on the BKA Act on July 7, 2015 - 1 BvR 966/09 and 1 BvR 1140/09, Federal Constitutional Court accessed on February 18, 2015.
  15. ↑ Forgotten on the Internet: The Jury , Network Policy Project Group of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on April 17, 2011.
  16. ↑ Detlef Borchers: Forget on the Net: Control the Future with the Past. heise online, April 13, 2011, accessed April 17, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Elmar Otto: Hacker meets lawyers: candidate for a fight for the data protection office . In: Ostthüringische Zeitung. February 23, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  18. ↑ Real independence is undesirable in Thuringia. In: Die Zeit , February 24, 2012
  19. ↑ The hacker. FAZ.net , February 19, 2010, accessed on January 29, 2019 .
  20. ↑ TOP 100 power women . In: computerwoche.de , accessed on January 20, 2014.
  21. ↑ Theodor Heuss Prize 2013. ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Theodor Heuss Foundation  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / theodor-heuss-stiftung.de
  22. ↑ Evangelical Academy Tutzing: Tolerance Prize for Christian Wulff and Constanze Kurz ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.ev-akademie-tutzing.de
  23. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.digital-ist.de
  24. ↑ https://editionf.com/25-frauen-fuer-digitale-zukunft
  25. ↑ DNB 1043024018
  26. ↑ Description and evaluation of the examinations on NEDAP voting computers (PDF file; 2.4 MB)
  27. ↑ Statement of the Chaos Computer Club on data retention ( memento of the original from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 12.9 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 213.73.89.124
  28. ↑ NSA scandal CCC spokeswoman files criminal charges against the federal government . In: heise.de
  29. ↑ to the BKA Act and the use of state Trojans (PDF file; 120 kB)
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SURNAME In short, Constanze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin