Peter Schaar

Peter Schaar (2013)

Peter Schaar giving a lecture at the 30C3 in Hamburg (2013).

Peter Schaar (born August 22, 1954 in Berlin ) was Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI) from 2003 to 2013 .

Life

Schaar grew up in Berlin. He completed his studies in economics at the Free University of Berlin , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Hamburg . From 1980 to 1986, Schaar then worked in various functions in the administration of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . In 1986 he was first head of the department , then in 1994 deputy Hamburg data protection officer. In 2002 Schaar temporarily switched to the private sector and founded PrivCom Datenschutz GmbH based in Hamburg.

From December 17, 2003 Schaar held the office of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection. The German Bundestag extended Schaars tenure on the proposal from the federal government to another term in office, which ended November 26, 2008 December 16, 2013. His successor was Andrea Vosshoff (CDU). After Schaar's appointment at the end of 2003, at the suggestion of the Greens , with many votes against - especially from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group - the re-election was clear: 484 of the 554 MPs present voted for Schaar.

In his function as the Federal Data Protection Officer, Schaar was a member of the Article 29 data protection group of the data protection officers of the EU member states, which he headed from February 2004 to February 2008. He worked in the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications of the International Data Protection Conference .

Since 2007 he has been a lecturer in the computer science department at the University of Hamburg. Since January 2016 he has headed the company's arbitration board for telematics applications for the health card (gematik).

Schaar is involved in the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID), an association founded in 2003 by Hansjürgen Garstka , of which he has been Chairman of the Board since September 2013. He is a member of the German Society for Freedom of Information, the Hamburg Data Protection Society , the Humanist Union and the Society for Computer Science . He is also a party member of Alliance 90 / The Greens . In 2008, Schaar received the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's “ The Political Book ” award for his book The End of Privacy .

Schaar is the winner of the eco Internet AWARD 2008, a special award from the German Internet industry at the Eco Forum . The Society for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD) awarded him the GDD data protection award on November 14, 2013 as the first winner. On June 4, 2014 he received the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award from the US patient rights organization Patient Privacy Rights .

Peter Schaar lives in Berlin. He is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

• Data protection on the Internet - the basics. 1st edition. Munich 2002. ISBN 978-3-406-48658-6 .
• The end of privacy - the path to the surveillance society. 2nd Edition. Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-570-00993-2 .
• Total surveillance - How we will protect our data in the future. Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-351-03295-1 .
• The digital we - our way to a transparent society. Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-89684-168-1 .
• Deceptive security: how fear of terror drives us into a state of emergency . edition Körber Foundation. Hamburg. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89684-199-5

Web links

Commons : Peter Schaar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Peter Schaar  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Peter Schaar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal homepage
• Peter Schaar's blog: Peter Schaar. The blog . EAID. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
• Guest contribution by Peter Schaar: Peter Schaar on Prism and Tempora: Moving back surveillance . In: Spiegel Online . June 25, 2013. Retrieved June 25, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steffen Hebestreit: Schaar calls for improved data protection . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . December 14, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
2. ↑ Stefan Krempl, jk: Peter Schaar confirmed as Federal Data Protection Officer in office . In: Heise Online . November 26, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
3. ↑ Official election result . German Bundestag. December 2, 2008. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
4. ↑ European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID)
5. ↑ GDD: Peter Schaar receives the GDD data protection award 2013 , November 15, 2013.
6. ^ Peter Schaar: Peter Schaar receives prestigious US data protection award . In: EAID blog. June 5, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2014.