Q&A: BfDI head Ulrich Kelber

Ulrich Kelber has been Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information since 2019, taking on the role on the eve of the Schrems II decision. The effects of that ruling have been especially felt in Germany and now, as the BfDI prepares to pore over Biden’s latest executive order, he is overseeing a reform of the way the country’s local data protection authorities collaborate and taking on the use of Facebook fan pages.