Waltraut Kotschy

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Waltraut Kotschy (* 1944) is an Austrian expert on data protection and e-government . From 2004 until her retirement at the end of June 2010, she worked for the Data Protection Commission and in this capacity was a member of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party and the Joint Supervisory Bodies of Schengen , Europol and ZIS.

Life

Kotschy studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics . At the Institute for Public Law there , she was involved in various projects of the Austrian Federal Chancellery in the 1970s as a university assistant, which dealt with the use of IT in knowledge management. Towards the end of the 1970s, Kotschy then specialized in data security . In 1980 she became a managing member of the Austrian Data Protection Commission. From 1981 to 1984 she worked as a federal civil servant in the data security unit at the Federal Chancellery. From 1984 to 1992, Kotschy worked with her husband in the Austrian diplomatic service abroad.

From 1993, as the head of the department responsible for legal issues relating to electronic data processing and administrative reform in the Austrian Federal Chancellery, she was involved in data protection-related Austrian legislative projects - in particular the Data Protection Act 2000, the E-Government Act (2004) and the Register Census Act (model of a census based on statistical units, which are not identified in any phase of the census) and representative of Austria in data protection-relevant bodies of the EU and the Council of Europe.

From 2000 to 2006, Kotschy was also the data protection officer of the Council of Europe. In addition to her teaching (also University of Vienna) and lecturing at home and abroad, Kotschy was particularly active in the data protection topics "electronic health record", "international data traffic, especially: binding corporate rules", "data protection- compliant identification and pseudonymisation ", " Data protection-compatible census ”,“ Video surveillance ”,“ PNR data transmission ”and“ Corporate compliance ”.

In 2003, in connection with a joint press release by ARGE Daten and the German Association for Data Protection, there was a legal dispute between Kotschy and Hans Gerhard Zeger , which ended with Zeger withdrawing his statements "with the expression of regret" and pledging himself to a court to refrain from making such statements in the future.

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  1. ↑ Joint press release from DVD and ARGE Daten from July 2003 ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 15 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.datenschutzverein.de
  2. ↑ Press release from ARGE Daten of November 13, 2003

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SURNAME Kotschy, Waltraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian data protection expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1944