{"id":114,"date":"2013-12-23T09:05:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=114"},"modified":"2013-12-23T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:09:48","slug":"germanys-new-dpc-supports-governmental-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s new DPC supports governmental spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The christian-democratic politician Andrea Vo\u00dfhoff will succeed Peter Schaar as Federal Data Protection Commissioner (DPC). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfdi.bund.de\/EN\/Home\/homepage_Kurzmeldungen\/GermanParliamentElectsAndreaVosshoff.html?nn=408870\" target=\"_blank\">Her election<\/a> is criticized because she did not care about data protection so far: She supported the data retention that was declared unlawful later on, and demanded the online searching of computers with spyware by governmental bodies and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Green politician Konstantin von Notz says in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/meinung\/gastbeitraege\/gastbeitrag-zur-vorratsdatenspeicherung-sargnagel-fuer-das-vertrauen-ins-internet\/9208610-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">guest article for German Handelsblatt<\/a> that this is just another part of the government\u2019s try to weaken fundamental rights protection of German citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Since Christmas is close when hope and happiness is celebrated in many parts of the world, I still hope that her\u00a0new role will change Mrs. Vo\u00dfhoff\u2019s mindset and she will become a strong supporter of the right of informational self-determination and privacy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>On this note, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Germany\u2019s new DPC supports governmental spyware\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftlx\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"linkedin\",\"xing\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=114\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"round\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The christian-democratic politician Andrea Vo\u00dfhoff will succeed Peter Schaar as Federal Data Protection Commissioner (DPC). Her election is criticized because she did not care about data protection so far: She supported the data retention that was declared unlawful later on, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/?p=114\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-politics","category-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/securitybydesign.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}