Katharina Nocun
Catherine Nocuń [ dt kataʀina nokun ] and Katarzyna Nocuń [ pln. kataʒɨna nɔt͡suɲ ] ( born 1986 in Tychy, Poland ) is a Polish-German politician, and was from Mai by November 2013, political director of the Pirate Party of Germany.
Life
Nocuń was born in Poland and came at the age of three years with her parents to Germany. Her mother is a database administrator, her father an IT project manager. After graduation in 2006 at the Konrad -Duden -Gymnasium in Wesel, she studied politics and economics at the University of Münster and then Politics, Economics and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree, their undergraduate thesis was on the subject Liquid feedback. By December 2012, she was professionally as a consultant for digital consumer rights at Consumer Federation of the project " surfers have rights" busy. She is currently working as an editor for net world and spent a part-time study in business computer science. She lives on a farm in Dissen am Teutoburger Wald.
It has both the German and the Polish nationality. In February 2014 Nocuń resigned from the church.
Political career
From 2007 she worked among others for the work Vorratsdatenspeicherung and digital courage eV, as well as in the years 2010/2011 during the demonstrations Freedom Not Fear and since 2011 also at the working party census and 2012 when Alliance " Hamburg against ACTA ." From 2009 to 2010 she was a consultant for Data Protection and Free Software in the student union of the University of Münster. There she participated in initiatives against the electronic student ID and the protests against tuition fees in the context of the nationwide education strike. In December 2010, she took part in a recent hearing of the European Commission prior to the re-evaluation of the Data Retention Directive in Brussels for the working group on data retention. This experience she later describes as being essential for their entry into the Pirate Party and publicly criticized a lack of integration of citizens' interests at EU and national level.
Nocuń joined in March 2012, the Pirate Party Germany. She was the top candidate of the Pirate Party in the state elections in Lower Saxony 2013 ( Rank 2), is in the general election of 2013 list number two of the Lower Saxony State Association and also competes as a direct candidate in the electoral district of Osnabrück country. She's topics Data Protection Commissioner of the Pirate Party Germany.
In January 2013, it submitted to the European Commission's complaint against the federal government, due to " lack of independence of the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. "
On 4 May 2013, it initiated with Patrick Breyer and Meinhard Starostik a collection constitutional complaint against which entered into force on July 1, Act on inventory data information.
On 10 May 2013, it was elected with 81.7 percent of votes in the consent election process for the Political Director of the Pirate Party. Before Congress in November 2013, it stated not to reapply for the position. Given their triple burden of study, labor and politics, they could be the work of the federal board " unfortunately no longer afford. " My successor in the office of the political manager until his resignation on March 16, 2014 Björn Semrau.
Writings
- Leif -Erik Holtz and Marit Hansen: Towards Displaying Privacy Information with icons. In: Privacy and Identity Management for Life. Springer Science Business Media (2011 ), pp. 338-348. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20769-3_27