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Austria: Data Protection Registrar resigns

01 May 1995

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The senior Data Protection Registrar of Austria, Ernst-Eugen Veselsky resigned at the end of April after criticising the government for regarding data protection as nothing more than an unnecessary duty. He said that following Austria's accession to the European Union problems in the job had increased. The day before his resignation he said that an amendment to the law on security services - which would lead to the telephone tapping of uninvolved third parties - would only be introduced "over his dead body". The Registrar had called for greater citizen access to data but the Schengen Agreement pulled in completely the opposed direction. Juridikum, no 2, 1995.

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