Society for data protection and data security

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Society for data protection and data security (GDD) eV
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purpose Commitment to meaningful, justifiable and technically feasible data protection
Chair: Rolf Schwartmann (chairman), Rainer W. Gerling (vice chairman), Gabriela Krader (vice chairwoman)
Establishment date: 1977
Number of members: over 3800 (as of July 2020)
Seat : Bonn GermanyGermanyGermany 
Website: https://www.gdd.de

The Society for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD) eV is a German association for data protection and data protection officers .

The Union

The GDD was founded in 1977 as a company for data protection and data backup and is based in Bonn . With over 3800 members (as of July 2020) it is the largest German data protection association. The association is a co-signatory of the joint declaration of the AK Storage of January 2007 on the draft law on data retention .

On November 18, 2009 the registered non-profit association was renamed the Society for Data Protection and Data Security by resolution of the members . It advocates sensible, justifiable and technically feasible data protection and supports data protection officers and data processing agencies in implementing data protection and data security .

The GDD is a founding member of the Confederation of European Data Protection Organizations (CEDPO), an umbrella organization of European data protection organizations, founded in September 2011 . Together with Datakontext conferences, the GDD organizes the data protection conference DAFTA , which takes place every November in Cologne.

Since November 21, 2012, the chairman of the GDD has been Rolf Schwartmann , u. a. Head of the Cologne Research Center for Media Law at the Faculty of Economics at the Technical University of Cologne .

GDD data protection award

Medal for the GDD data protection award, designed by the Cologne sculptor and medalist Heribert Calleen

Since 2013, the association has been awarding the GDD data protection prize annually, with which "the personal commitment and the achievements of personalities are to be recognized who have courageously campaigned for the strengthening of the basic right to informational self-determination in times of big data and increasing digitalization".

Award winners

  • 2019: Ranga Yogeshwar , science journalist, for his contribution "to the understanding of society for the complex interrelationships between data protection and data security" and "for the acceptance of data protection in the practice of companies".
  • 2018: Thomas Kranig , President of the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision , for the "clarification of the new law" from the General Data Protection Regulation and the new Federal Data Protection Act by his authority
  • 2017: Jörg Eickelpasch , Head of Department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for his “personal commitment” in the “largely jointly responsible” adjustment of the BDSG to the new European data protection law
  • 2016: Viviane Reding , for her "commitment to the creation of the European General Data Protection Regulation"
  • 2015: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , for her "honorable and courageous commitment" against "large eavesdropping, data retention, internet blocking and excessive communication monitoring by secret services"
  • 2014: Jan Philipp Albrecht , for "his special services to the further development of data protection at European level"
  • 2013: Peter Schaar , for his "extraordinary and publicly effective commitment to the basic right to informational self-determination, which he demonstrated before and during his ten-year term of office."

Science award of the GDD

The association awards the GDD's Bernd Hentschel Science Prize and the Science Promotion Prize for data protection and data security every year . The GDD Science Award honors outstanding scientific work in the areas of data protection and data security that meets all criteria of excellence and makes an excellent contribution to the further development of data protection law. The board of the GDD has set up a scientific advisory board that advises and supports the society. The Scientific Advisory Board consists of experts in the fields of data protection and IT security.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board

Award winners

  • 2019
    • Martin Scheurer for his legal dissertation on the declaration of consent
    • Manuela Wagner for her legal dissertation on data economy and self-data protection
    • Sponsorship award: Christiane Kuhn, IT security short-time work
  • 2018
    • Tim Jülicher for the dissertation "Medical Information Law"
    • Tobias Dehling for "Communication of Information Privacy Practices in Consumer Information Systems"
    • Young Talent Award: Kerrin Mengel with her work “Privacy by prescription? - A cultural-sociological investigation of current expert discourses regarding the privacy by design concept against the background of the implementation of the requirements of the new European General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) "
  • 2017
    • Tobias Jacquemain for the dissertation "The tortious damages in European data protection law: with special consideration of the damage assessment"
    • Thomas Schwenke for the dissertation "Private use of smart glasses in public space"
    • Steffi Haag for the dissertation "Shadow IT - Insights from Multiple Research Perspectives"
    • Sponsorship award: Andreas Schütz for the master's thesis "Sensitizing employees of small and medium-sized companies to the topic of information security"
  • 2016
    • Maximilian Schmidt , for the dissertation "Data protection for" employees "- reason and limits of area-specific regulation"
    • Florian Tschorsch , for "Onions in the Queue: An Integral Networking Perspective on Anonymous Communication Systems"
    • Sponsorship award: Nazia Sarwat Islam, for her master's thesis "Quantization Aspects in LDPC Decoding for Key Reconciliation Methods for a Reciprocal Channel"
  • 2015
    • Steffen Kroschwald , for the work: "Informational self-determination in the cloud - data protection assessment and design of cloud computing from the perspective of medium-sized companies"
    • Tilman Frosch , for the work: "On Mitigation of Client-Side Attacks and Protection of Private Data"
    • Sponsorship award: Céline Fabienne Lücken, for the work "Discrepancy between data protection measures and data protection perception in e-administration - solutions to overcome information asymmetries using the example of the city of Düsseldorf"
  • 2014
    • Stefan Drackert , for the work: "The Risks of Processing Personal Data - An Investigation into the Basics of Data Protection Law"
    • Yoan Hermstrüwer , for the work: "Informational self- endangerment - on the legal-dogmatic, game-theoretical and empirical rationality of consent under data protection law"
    • Dominik Herrmann , for the thesis "Monitoring options in the domain name system: attacks on privacy and techniques for self-data protection"
    • Sponsorship award: Robin Fay, for the work "Analysis of alignment-independent feature extraction methods in finger and vein biometry"
  • 2013
    • Stephan Pötters , for work: "Basic rights and employee data protection"
    • Christina Brzuska , for the work: "On the Foundations of Key Exchange"
    • Sponsorship award: Raoul Kirmes, for the work: “Private IT forensics and private investigations; two sides of the same coin? "
  • 2012
    • Thomas Schneider , for his work: "Engineering Secure Two-Party Computation Protocols - Advances in Design, Optimization, and Applications of Efficient Secure Function Evaluation"
    • Simon Burger for the dissertation "The protection of health-related employee data"
  • 2011
    • Simon Bohnen for the work "The BDSG-Novellen 2009/2010"
    • Andriy Panchenko for the work: "Anonymous Communication in the Age of the Internet"
    • Sponsorship award: Jasmin Fladung for her work: "Compliance, data protection and social media - special features and risks in the context of HR work"
  • 2010
    • Julia Gerhards for work: "(Basic) right to encryption"
    • Anja Lehmann for the work: "On the Security of Hash Function Combiners"
    • Sponsorship awards: Andreas Dewald for his work: "Detection and Prevention of Malicious Websites", Sebastian Gerling for his work: "Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks on Printers"
  • 2009
    • Ivan Martinovic for work: "Security in Wireless Networks: A fresh Approach"
    • Britta Alexandra Mester for the work "Employee data protection - necessity and content of a legal regulation"
    • Nils Haag for the work "Legally compliant direct marketing based on bonus programs"
    • Sponsorship award: Doris Schiöberg for her work: "A Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Social Networks"
  • 2008
    • Silke Jandt for her work: "Trust in Mobile Commerce - Proposals for the legally compatible design of location-based services"
    • Achim Büllesbach for work: "Transnationality and data protection - The binding nature of company regulations"
    • Sponsorship award: Dominik Herrmann for his work: "Analysis of data protection-friendly transmission technologies with regard to their protection against data traffic analysis on the Internet"
  • 2007
    • Christian Schröder for work: "Liability for violations of privacy policies and codes of conduct under US and German law"
    • Erik-Oliver Blaß for the work: "Safe, aggregating data transport in wireless sensor networks"
    • Advancement award: Stephanie Kesten for the work: "RFID from the point of view of consumers: Aspects of data and consumer protection"
  • 2006
    • Jörg Hladjk for his work "Online Profiling and Data Protection - An Investigation Using the Example of the Automotive Industry"

Web links

  • www.gdd.de Official website of the Society for Data Protection and Data Security e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About CEDPO. (No longer available online.) In: cedpo.eu. Archived from the original on November 15, 2018 ; accessed on November 24, 2018 . 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.cedpo.eu
  2. ↑ About us: GDD board. In: gdd.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Data protection award for Jan Philipp Albrecht. In: gdd.de. Retrieved October 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Ranga Yogeshwar receives GDD data protection award 2019. In: gdd.de. November 22, 2019, accessed November 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Awarding of the GDD data protection prize 2018. In: gdd.de. November 15, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  6. ↑ "The Miracle of Jörg" - GDD awards data protection prize. In: gdd.de. November 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Viviane Reding receives GDD data protection award 2016. In: gdd.de. November 18, 2016, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ GDD data protection prize for Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger. In: gdd.de. November 19, 2015, accessed November 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Data protection prize for Jan Philipp Albrecht, MEP. (No longer available online.) In: RDV online - Law of data processing. October 21, 2015, archived from the original on November 22, 2015 ; accessed on October 22, 2015 . 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.rdv-online.com
  10. ↑ Peter Schaar receives the GDD data protection award 2013. (No longer available online.) In: RDV online - Law of data processing. November 11, 2013, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on October 22, 2015 . 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.rdv-online.com
  11. ↑ Peter Schaar receives the GDD data protection award 2013. In: gdd.de. November 15, 2013, accessed March 9, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Scientific Advisory Board. In: gdd.de. Retrieved December 29, 2015 .
  13. ^ GDD eV: GDD Science Award 2019. In: Twitter . November 22, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 .
  14. ↑ GDD Science Awards 2018. In: gdd.de. November 15, 2018, accessed November 24, 2018 .
  15. ↑ GDD Science Awards 2017. In: gdd.de. Retrieved November 21, 2017 .
  16. ↑ GDD Science Awards 2016. In: gdd.de. November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .
  17. ↑ GDD Science Awards 2015. In: gdd.de. November 20, 2015, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Several works awarded the GDD Science Prize 2014. In: gdd.de. November 20, 2014, accessed March 9, 2015 .
  19. ↑ The protection of health-related employee data. In: amazon.de/. October 9, 2013, accessed July 22, 2020 .