Thilo Weichert

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Thilo Weichert at the demonstration “ Freedom instead of fear ” in September 2009

Thilo Weichert (born October 30, 1955 in Marbach am Neckar ) is a German lawyer and was the data protection officer for the state of Schleswig-Holstein from 2004 to 2015 .

Life

Weichert studied law and political science at the Universities of Friborg and Geneva . Weichert did his doctorate with a thesis on data protection in criminal investigations. From 1984 to 1986 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg in the parliamentary group of the Greens . Klaus-Dieter Käser then took up his mandate . Extensive stays abroad in France, the USA and the Dominican Republic followed. Weichert worked as a lawyer in Freiburg, parliamentary advisor in Stuttgart and Dresden, publicist and as a university lecturer in Freiburg and Hanover.

In 1991 he applied as a candidate from Alliance 90 for the office of data protection officer of the state of Brandenburg , but failed. The FDP MP Rosemarie Fuchs accused him at the time of being an “anarchist” who “publicly boasts of committing violations of the law from time to time”. In this context, the then President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Eckart Werthebach , was suspected of having passed on confidential information about Weichert to Fuchs. Investigations against Werthebach for betrayal of secrets were discontinued.

In 1991/1992, Weichert was also a legal advisor to the citizens' committees for the dissolution of the State Security and from 1992 to 1998 he was an advisor to the State Commissioner for Data Protection in Lower Saxony. In 1998 Weichert became deputy state commissioner for data protection in Schleswig-Holstein; In 2000 he also became deputy head of the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein (ULD).

Weichert was chairman of the German Association for Data Protection until 2004 . Since September 1, 2004, he has been the data protection officer of the state of Schleswig-Holstein and head of the ULD, on September 17, 2009 the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament unanimously elected Weichert as head of the ULD for a further five years. His second re-election on July 10, 2014 failed because he received one vote too few. Weichert continued to hold office until his successor, Marit Hansen, was elected on July 15, 2015.

In 2003, Weichert was under discussion as the successor to the then Federal Data Protection Commissioner Joachim Jacob , but was not considered to have a majority. Instead, the German Bundestag elected Peter Schaar as Jacobs' successor. In October 2008 he was proposed by the Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter as the successor to the Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar. Schaar was confirmed by the German Bundestag.

Confrontation with Facebook

In his role as the highest data protection officer in Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert has been fighting for some time to ensure that Facebook does not save profiles of users from the state in the United States . Many data protectionists from other federal states supported Weichert in his criticism. At times, Weichert threatened the operators of websites with a Facebook connection with fines of up to 50,000 euros. The dispute began to move in October 2011 as Facebook announced an examination of the technical necessity. Thilo Weichert was confident that he could end the conflict with the announced measures.

Weichert considers Facebook's business model to be incompatible with German and European data protection rules. On the occasion of Facebook's IPO in May 2012, he said:

“The previous capital values ​​of Facebook are based on a procedure that violates data protection and violates German and European law. [...] Anyone who speculates as a shareholder must expect that if data protection prevails in Germany and Europe with its concerns, the business model of Facebook will collapse. "

- Thilo Weichert : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Fonts

  • Informational self-determination and criminal investigation - on the constitutional use of technology in criminal proceedings. Diss. Jur., Centaurus-Verlag, Pfaffenweiler 1990, ISBN 3-89085-515-6 .
  • Commentary on the Central Aliens Register Act. Luchterhand-Verlag, Neuwied 2001, ISBN 3-472-03534-X .
  • Fighting crime or complete surveillance? - The data retention debate. 2002. Download as PDF file (80 KByte) from the website of the German Association for Data Protection.
  • Security, crime and fundamental rights in the computerized risk society. In: Humanist Union e. V. (Ed.): Internal security as a danger. 1st edition, Berlin 2003, pp. 19–31, ISBN 3-930416-23-9 .
  • Security agency data processing - inventory and prospects. In: Humanist Union e. V. (Ed.): Internal security as a danger. 1st edition, Berlin 2003, pp. 303-314, ISBN 3-930416-23-9 .
  • On the need to reform the German secret services after September 11th. 2003. Download as a PDF file from the website of the German Association for Data Protection.
  • The electronic health card. In: Data protection and data security 2004, pp. 391–403. Download as PDF file (136 KByte).
  • EU General Data Protection Regulation and BDSG-new. Compact comment . 1st edition. Bund-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2018, ISBN 978-3-7663-6615-3 (1379 p., Together with Wolfgang Däubler , Peter Wedde and Imke Sommer ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Secret Services: Blue Wonder . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1992, pp. 93 ( Online - Apr. 6, 1992 ).
  2. ↑ ULD Schleswig-Holstein: Marit Hansen elected as State Commissioner for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein - farewell to Dr. Thilo Weichert , press release from July 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Andre Meister: Data protection officer in Schleswig-Holstein: Pirates prevent Thilo Weichert from being re-elected. In: Netzpolitik.org. July 10, 2014, accessed on July 10, 2014 : “The government in the SH Landtag has 35 seats: SPD (22), Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (10) and SSW (3). So at least one vote is missing from the governing coalition. But the six pirates also voted against Weichert. "
  4. ↑ Facebook: Criticism from privacy advocates is getting louder , August 25, 2011
  5. ^ Facebook: Movement in the data protection dispute with Schleswig-Holstein , October 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Facebook has a problem: Facebook's gigantic IPO carries a risk that many ignore: If data protection prevails, Facebook's business model collapses . (Interview with Thilo Weichert, Michael Hanfeld asks the questions), in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 18, 2012, page 33.
personal data
SURNAME Weichert, Thilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, data protection expert and politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Marbach am Neckar , Baden-Wuerttemberg