Joachim Jacob

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Joachim-Wilhelm Jacob (born January 4, 1939 in Bamberg ) is a German administrative lawyer and data protection expert .

Career

Jacob's career began in 1966 in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . There he worked as personal Speaker of the State Secretary Günter Hartkopf (FDP) operates. In 1968 he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . He later became Vice President of the Federal Statistical Office and Director of the Federal Academy for Public Administration .

After having been deputy for four years, Jacob held the office of the Federal Data Protection Officer (BfD) from July 1993 to November 2003 . Today he is the data protection officer of the FDP and has been advising the retail company Lidl on data protection issues since the beginning of April 2008 .

Joachim Jacob is married and has three children. He is a member of the FDP and the Corps Bavaria Erlangen .

2008 Joachim Jacob wrote a report on US prisoners of the security classification CLOSURE THING FOR OFFICIAL USE received (RESTRICTED). Wikileaks published this in 2009.

Work (selection)

  • Joachim Jacob: Journalism in the field of tension between freedom of the press and data protection. In: Data protection and data security 02/1998.
  • Joachim Jacob: Media workers' right to refuse to give evidence. In: Data protection and data security 05/2002.
  • Joachim Jacob / Helmut Heil: Data protection in the field of tension between state control and self-regulation. In: Johann Bizer / Bernd Luttbeck / Joachim Rieß (eds.): Changes in regulatory systems in the information society - a gift for Alfred Büllesbach. Stuttgart 2002, pp. 213–223 ISBN 3-00-009813-5 online (PDF; 71 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. Wikileaks .

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