Short BIO

Marit Hansen is Deputy Privacy & Information Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and Deputy Chief of Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (ULD). Within ULD she is in charge of the 'Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET)' Division and the 'Innovation Centre Privacy & Security'. Since her diploma in computer science in 1995 she has been working on security and privacy aspects especially concerning anonymity, pseudonymity, identity management, biometrics, multilateral security, and e-privacy from both the technical and the legal perspectives.

In several projects Marit Hansen and her team actively participate in technology design in order to support PET and give feedback on legislation. Currently she is participating in the European FP7 projects 'ABC4Trust - Attribute-based Credentials for Trust' (https://abc4trust.eu/), 'FutureID - Shaping the Future of Electronic Identity' (http://www.futureid.eu/) and 'TClouds - Trustworthy Clouds' (http://www.tclouds-project.eu/).

 

CPDP Conferences

Member of the scientific committee.

 

CPDP Conference 2012

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'What's on the law firms agenda?'

 

CPDP Conference 2011

Hosting of the CPDP2012 panel 'What's on the law firms agenda?'