Jan Philipp Albrecht
Jan Philipp Albrecht | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2009 – 2 July 2018 | |
Constituency | Germany |
Minister for Energy, Agriculture, the Environment, Nature and Digitalization | |
In office 1 September 2018 – 2 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Robert Habeck |
Succeeded by | Monika Heinold |
Personal details | |
Born | Humboldt-University | 20 December 1982
Website | janalbrecht |
Jan Philipp Albrecht (born 20 December 1982) is a German politician of the
Early life and education
Albrecht was born in Braunschweig. He studied law in Bremen, Brussels and Berlin and worked for the Walter Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law in Berlin. He graduated in information and communications technology law from Leibniz University Hannover and from the University of Oslo.
Political career
Albrecht was spokesman of the
Member of the European Parliament, 2009–2018
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In the
In addition to his committee assignments, Albrecht was a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime)[2] and the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda.[3]
Following his re-election in 2014, supported by his party by an historical high nomination result of 97.38%, Albrecht was appointed Vice Chair of the
State Minister in Schleswig-Holstein, 2018–2022
In March 2018, Albrecht was appointed the successor of
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 German elections, Albrecht was part of his party's delegation in the working group on digital innovation and infrastructure, co-chaired by Jens Zimmermann, Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart.[6]
Albrecht resigned his Post as Minister effective on 2 June 2022 to join the Heinrich Böll Foundation, with Monika Heinold succeeding him as Acting Minister.[1]
Political positions
On privacy and data protection
Albrecht aims to strengthen civil liberties in the digital age. He is well known for his expertise in privacy and data protection laws and is the rapporteur of the European Parliament for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation as well as for the EU-US data protection framework agreement.[7] Albrecht has also been active in the decision-making process of the so-called SWIFT-agreement in the European Parliament, which was intended to give US authorities access to European bank data transferred via SWIFT for their terrorist finance tracking program (TFTP).[8]
Albrecht is generally opposed to the lowering of judicial standards in the protection of fundamental rights for the purpose of security or law enforcement. In January 2013, Albrecht introduced a bill proposing to create a new agency to enforce a series of measures giving Internet users greater control of their online information. If approved, the proposal would have replaced the
In October 2013 Albrecht's proposal for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs with a broad majority of all political groups. Since then Albrecht has drawn worldwide attention for his commitment to privacy and data protection standards.[10] Albrecht was also leading the negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on the adoption of the regulation. After a deal was found in December 2015 and adopted by Council and Parliament in April 2016, Albrecht became known as the father of the GDPR which will get into application in May/June 2018 everywhere on the EU market as the directly applicable data protection law replacing the existing provisions of the 28 member states.
Albrecht filed an
Albrecht was rapporteur of the
On mass surveillance
Since the revelations by
Other activities
Corporate boards
- Deutsche Telekom, Member of the Data Privacy Advisory Board
Non-profit organizations
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the General Assembly[14]
- Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM), Member (since 2010)[15]
- NOYB – European Center for Digital Rights, Member
- University of Vienna, Visiting Lecturer (since 2010)
- FC St. Pauli, Member[16]
References
- ^ a b "Umweltminister verabschiedet". schleswig-holstein.de (in German). Retrieved 22 June 2022.
- ^ Members of the European Parliament on Integrity (Transparency, Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime) European Parliament.
- ^ Members Archived 8 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda.
- ^ Andrea Lange (3 March 2018), „Ich werde viel lernen müssen" – Jan Philipp Albrecht wird Nachfolger von Robert Habeck Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag.
- ^ Esther Geißlinger (4 March 2018), Nachfolger für Robert Habeck: Ämter-Rochade ist vollbracht Die Tageszeitung.
- ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ Data protection: Jan Philipp Albrecht, The Parliament (12.10.2012)
- ^ European Parliament Wields a Wider Influence, New York Times (4.03.2010)
- New York Times.
- ^ E.U. Pushes for Stricter Data Protection After Snowden's NSA Revelations, Time Magazine (21 October 2013)
- ^ "Brief of Amicus Curiae Jan Philipp Albrecht Member of The European Parliament" (PDF). digitalconstitution.com. Microsoft.
- ^ In EU-US data sharing we trust – but can we have that in writing, say MEPs, The Register (16 September 2015)
- European Voice.
- ^ General Assembly Heinrich Böll Foundation.
- ^ Members Archived 23 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM).
- ^ Andrea Lange (3 March 2018), „Ich werde viel lernen müssen" – Jan Philipp Albrecht wird Nachfolger von Robert Habeck Schleswig-Holsteinischer ZeitungsverlagÄÄ.
External links
Media related to Jan Philipp Albrecht at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website