Catholic data protection center

The Catholic Data Protection Center is a public corporation based in Dortmund . It was established by the archdioceses and dioceses of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on August 20, 2015 to ensure a data protection standard comparable to the state sector . The Catholic Data Protection Center carries out church data protection supervision on the basis of the church data protection regulations applicable to the member dioceses, in particular the law on church data protection (KDG) in the version applicable to the member diocese. At the same time, this is intended to ensure that the responsible church bodies within the meaning of the KDG have taken sufficient data protection measures.

The head of the Catholic Data Protection Center has been the lawyer Steffen Pau since September 1, 2016. Pau is also the diocesan data protection officer for the dioceses of Aachen , Essen , Cologne , Münster (North Rhine-Westphalian part) and Paderborn . The official seal of the data protection center shows St. Ivo Hélory , patron saint of lawyers.

Web links

• Catholic Data Protection Center website
• Document on the establishment and statutes of the Catholic Data Protection Center in the Official Gazette of the Archdiocese of Cologne

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement by the Prime Minister of September 30, 2015 ( MBl. NRW. P. 822 )
2. ↑ Establishment deed without articles of association , accessed on December 30, 2015
3. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 1 of the Articles of Association of August 20, 2015 ( MBl. NRW. P. 825 )
4. ↑ Steffen Pau introduced as the new diocesan data protection officer. September 1, 2016, accessed July 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Saint Ivo - Lawyer for the Poor, Patron of Data Protection. May 19, 2018. Retrieved July 14, 2018 .