Ivana Janu to head Office for Protection of Private Data

Former Czech Constitutional Court judge Ivana Janu is to be the new head of the Office for Protection of Private Data. She was selected for the post by the upper house of Parliament, on the nomination of a group of Christian Democrat senators. Janu will take office in September replacing Igor Nemec who has served two terms in office and was not able to seek re-election. In her address to the Senate Janu stressed the growing importance of the office in defending people´s privacy which she said was threatened by an increasing number various registers serving public institutions and by people’s careless attitude in using social websites.