Klaus-Rainer Kalk

Klaus-Rainer Kalk is a German data protection expert.

From 1992 to 2005 he was the state commissioner for data protection in Saxony-Anhalt . Kalk had previously worked for the Lower Saxony state data protection officer for five years. His main focus was the relationship between data protection and internal security .

Kalk was also a member of Europol's joint supervisory body from the establishment of Europol in October 1998 until December 2004; of which from October 2002 to December 2004 its chairman. One of Kalks's merits in this supervisory body was the agreement of security clauses for the transfer of personal data from Europol to the USA.

Kalk's résumé at the end of his term of office as state data protection officer was sobering: “What separates us from the total surveillance state today is (...) that the state's financial and human resources are not sufficient.”
Kalk uses the phrase “An email is more open as a postcard " , which he expressed for the first time at the presentation of the fifth activity report of the state commissioner for data protection in Saxony-Anhalt.

Web links

• Speech by Thilo Weichert on the occasion of the farewell to Klaus-Rainer Kalk and the inauguration of Dr. Harald von Bose as State Commissioner for Data Protection Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )