Germany: Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn complete their data protection systems and turn over a new leaf on past scandals

New “Committee on Data Protection” for DB. Even though Deutsche Bahn is facing a new corruption and bribery scandal, this time affecting a subsidiary, DB International, the company announced the creation of a Committee on Data Protection to get it over with recent years’ drifts (see our dispatch No. 090346). The new Committee (Datenschutz – Beirat) is going to improve the existing system via mediation and advice to the management and the person in charge, in the company, of the protection of private data, as well as monitoring the respect of procedures, for the protection of employees and customers’ data. The Committee will be made up of 12 members and will meet four times a year. Its chair will be Klaus-Dieter Hommel, leader of the GDBA union (one of the three key rail unions). In addition to a few independent experts, he will be assisted by the leaders of the Transnet and GDL (train drivers) unions, Reiner Beck and Norbert Quitter, as well as Sylvia Schenk, leader of the German department of the Transparency International NGO, and Herta Daubler-Gmelin, former Federal Minister for Justice and in charge of an inquiry report on the DB’s scandal.
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and customers’ data. The Committee will be made up of 12 members and will meet four times a year. Its chair will be Klaus-Dieter Hommel, leader of the GDBA union (one of the three key rail unions). In addition to a few independent experts, he will be assisted by the leaders of the Transnet and GDL (train drivers) unions, Reiner Beck and Norbert Quitter, as well as Sylvia Schenk, leader of the German department of the Transparency International NGO, and Herta Daubler-Gmelin, former Federal Mini

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