Bio:
Mr. Marcus Hild works for the Austrian Data Protection Commission (DSK) and is responsible for the Austrian E-Government Register Authority. This authority is a part of the independent national data protection authority (DPA) in Austria and is not only in charge of dealing with the legal and practical privacy issues arising in this sector but also of running the electronic identity system on which the Austrian E-Government applications and the Citizen card system is based upon.
On international level Mr. Hild is a member of the Traveller Data subgroup of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party which is the independent EU Advisory Body on Data Protection and Privacy.
The ePrivacy System in the Austrian Government
Abstract:
This lecture will describe the electronic identity system used in the Austrian E-Government applications and focus on the legal and practical background of the applications that are currently in use. It will detail how the challenge of making a both reliable and privacy friendly system has been resolved. Examples of the successful use like the register based census or the secure transfer of medical data will be presented. General data protection principles will be seen in the context of E-Government tools and their specific requirements for accuracy and security. Examples of legal and practical problems encountered by the Austrian E-Government Register Authority in its role as operator of the system and in its role as data protection authority will be discussed.