Katharina Just

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Katharina Just am Redner.innenpult der BBAs 2025.
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Katharina Just is a computer scientist and a certified data protection commissioner. She has worked at the universities of Bonn and Dortmund and for many years she has advised workers representatives at the technology advice unit of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia. Today she works as a consultant for works councils and staff committees. She advises on shaping IT in industry and for data protection.

She currently works at Forbit PartG in Hamburg and at mitgestaltet Technologieberatung in Cologne.

Memberships:

  • Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden e.V. (FIfF)
  • Deutsche Vereinigung für Datenschutz e.V. (DVD)
Position / Organisation
Gastlaudatorin

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In a compelling, entertaining and accessible format, we present these negative awards to companies, organisations, and politicians. The BigBrotherAwards highlight privacy and data protection offenders in business and politics, or as the French paper Le Monde once put it, they are the “Oscars for data leeches”.

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