Wikipedia:Why is the Federal Commissioner on Wikipedia?
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The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI, German: Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) is an independent government agency in Germany that carries out data protection and freedom of information in the country. For the purpose of this essay, this government agency is hereby called "the Federal Commissioner" for brevity and to distinguish itself from another topic with the same abbreviation.
Background
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The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI, German: Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit), referring to either a person or the agency they lead, is tasked with supervising data protection as well as acting in an ombudsman function in freedom of information. The latter was introduced with the German Freedom of Information Act on 1 January 2006. In 2016, it became an independent federal agency under EU regulations.[1]
Policies and guidelines
[edit]Notability
[edit]Although there is just one source on the English Wikipedia article, there are many more sources on its German counterpart albeit in German. Editors on the English Wikipedia can copy and translate text from the German version, provided that they properly attribute the text per its CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Neutral point of view
[edit]The Federal Commissioner article has not been the subject of conflicts of interest and "fanaticism" from government actors and members of relevant advocacy groups.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sertan Sanderson (17 June 2015), Commissioner slams data retention policies Deutsche Welle.