For a few years, the German Parliament, trade unions and federal and regional representatives for the protection of data, asking the federal government a "Law on the protection of data concerning employees" (Arbeitnehmerdatenschutzgesetz) without success. But after the recent video surveillance scandal at the discounter Lidl (see our dispatch No. 080241), the debate has resumed with renewed vigor. (Ref. 080275)
Peter Schaar, representative in charge of the protection of personal data for the Federal government thinks that what happened at Lidl’s is “an extreme case, but definitely not an isolated one”. On the occasion of the meeting of all local representatives for the protection of personal data, on April 4, Mr. Schaar requested that Germany gets a “new culture of data protection”. A few days earlier, Horst Seehofer, Federal Minister for Consumer Protection, was campaigning for a new law: “The Lidl i
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