Data defender: as Switzerland's data-protection and information commissioner, Hanspeter Thur is the man who stands between our private information and the corporations desperate to get their hands on it. He updates us on the fight.

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Data defender: as Switzerland's data-protection and information commissioner, Hanspeter Thur is the man who stands between our private information and the corporations desperate to get their hands on it. He updates us on the fight.

Hanspeter Thur has a reputation for being a fighter: a fighter for people's privacy rights. Year on year, his office reviews countless cases, acting as the final line of defence between Swiss citizens and data-hungry corporations, government institutions and others keen to get their hands on personal information. Thur is not deterred by an organisation's size when taking up this fight either: it was his office that ...

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