Konrad Haldorn
Technical investigator, Berlin. The systems behind the rules.
Konrad grew up in a village outside Kassel, studied physics in Marburg and spent nearly ten years as a test engineer for a payments software company in Frankfurt. He still writes up an investigation the way he wrote up a failed test there: environment, steps, expected result, actual result.
The move into consent work came after the GDPR and the Planet49 ruling in 2019, when law firms and data protection officers started asking for someone who could document what a website actually sent to third parties. He went independent, moved to Berlin, and now produces technical evidence for lawyers, consumer organisations and newsrooms. He is not a lawyer and says so early, though he spent a year of evenings on a data protection law certificate so he could understand what his clients needed from his captures.
He plays cello in an amateur orchestra in Kreuzberg and goes mushroom foraging in the Brandenburg forests in autumn, where he throws out a good share of every basket because he won't cook anything he can't identify with certainty.
Does the system behave the way its owners say it does, and what follows if it doesn't?
- Based in
- Berlin, by way of a village outside Kassel
- Trained as
- A physicist, in Marburg
- Before this
- Ten years testing payments software in Frankfurt
- Works for
- Lawyers, consumer organisations and newsrooms. Not a lawyer, and says so early.
- Off the clock
- Cello in an amateur orchestra in Kreuzberg, mushrooms in the Brandenburg forests
- Writes most about
- cookie-consentgdpr
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