Veranstaltungen Überblick

The German Perspektive: Prof. Dr. Michael Ronellenfitsch (Video)

Prof. Ronellenfitsch studied law and gained the doctorial degree at the Universityof Heidelberg. Then he worked in the public service of the state Baden- Wuerttemberg. After his postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) in 1981 Prof. Ronellenfitsch taught law at the universities of Cologne, Saarbrucken and Bonn, had a chair for public law at "Freie Universität" Berlin and since 1993 at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. There he is still director of the research centre for planning, traffic, technology and data protection. Prof. Dr. Michael Ronellenfitsch was elected as the Hessian Data Protection Commissioner by the Hessian Parliament on 18 September 2003. He was three times unanimously re-elected to this position, at last in 2014. Prof. Ronellenfitsch wrote about 60 books, some 300 reports and among others, he is co-editor of the law journals "Verwaltungsarchiv", "Recht der Datenverarbeitung" as well as "Straßenverkehrsrecht".

The Estonian Perspective: Ivar Tallo, PhD (Video)

Dr. Ivar Tallo is one of the founders and a Member of the Supervisory Board of the e-Governance Academy. In the latter role he has promoted the use of information and communication technologiesto public sector leaders in Central and Eastern European countries, the Balkans, the CIS, Arab countries and Africa. He has given e-government lectures to the presidents of Kazakhstanand Armenia, the cabinets and ministers of Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Namibia and Rwanda, and speakers and MPs from Macedonia, Afghanistan and Kazakhstan. Ivar Tallo has been a Member of Riigikogu (Estonian Parliament) and Member of theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He has also worked as a lecturer on public policy and public administration at Tartu University. Mr Tallo is the author of the Basic Principles of Information Policy of Estonia, Code of Conduct for Civil Servants and co-author of the Public Information Act.

Prof. Dr. Beate Roessler: Privacy as a Value for Democratic Societies (Video)

Beate Roessler is a Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam; from 2003 to 2010 she also taught as Socrates-Professor for the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University. She formerly taught philosophy at the Free University, Berlin, Germany, and at the University of Bremen, Germany. In 2003/4 she was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin; in November 2011 she was a fellow at the Center for Agency, Value, and Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and in 2015 a two-month fellow at the University of Melbourne, Law School. She is a co-editor of the European Journal of Philosophy; a co-director of the research program Philosophy and Public Affairs (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, ASCA) and, at present, head of the department of philosophy.

Dr. Julia Powles: The Map is Not the Territory: Preoccupations of a Connected Planet

Dr. Powles is a legal researcher, cross-appointed by the Faculty of Law and the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the law and politics of technology, including internet regulation, data protection, privacy, and intellectual property. She is currently working on projects on cloud computing, cybercrime, and data control in the Internet of Things. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and Wired, and previously worked at the World Intellectual Property Organization and in the Australian court and tribunal system. 

For a link to a video of her talk, please contact us at mail(at)stiftungdatenschutz.org.

Prof. Niko Haerting: German Expectations (Video)

Prof. Niko Haerting is founding partner of HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte, a leading boutique law firm in Berlin, specialised on media and techologie issues, IT and IP law as well as data protection and privacy. He is also a law professor at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft and Recht (HWR) and chief editor of the magazine "Privacy in Germany (PinG)". Moreover, he is one of the editors of "Computer und Recht (CR)". Amongst his numerous publications, he has written a book on internet law. The 5th edition of "Internetrecht" was published in 2014.

Scott is an editor for the German language service of the Reuters news agency in Berlin. After receiving a medical degree from the University of Essen, he enrolled in graduate school for journalism in Mainz. From 2006 to 2016 he published the blog "USA Erklärt" which attempted to explain America to Germans and was nominated for the Grimme Online Award. His hobbies includeprogramming in 8-bit assembler and FORTH.