German Association for Data Protection
The German Association for Data Protection e. V. (DVD), in short: Data Protection Association , is a non-profit registered association founded in 1977 with headquarters in Bonn . The independent data protection consultant Frank Spaeing has been its chairman since October 2015.
The DVD aims to protect the interests of the citizens in all questions of data protection , data processing and data security . It wants to achieve this in particular by educating and advising the population and through public relations and media work. She works with other non-governmental organizations that pursue similar goals, for example with the Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility , digitalcourage (formerly FoeBuD) and the Humanist Union . Together with them she participates in the annual presentation of the German Big Brother Awards . The German Association for Data Protection was a co-signatory of the joint declaration of the working group on data retention on the draft law on data retention and supports the demonstrations freedom instead of fear . She has also been a partner of Campact several times , e.g. B. 2012 in the campaign against the registration law .
The association describes itself as “civil, critical of the state and left-wing liberal”.
The magazine Datenschutz Nachrichten (DANA) has been publishing the DVD since 1978 .
literature
- Thilo Weichert : German Association for Data Protection (DVD) - 30 years is not enough. In: Datenschutz Nachrichten 2/2007, pp. 56–61.
Web links
swell
- ↑ Demonstration call with supporter list
- ↑ https://www.campact.de/melderecht/press/pm120710/ ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )