Pál Könyves Tóth

From 1964, he was the national manager of technical services at IBM, then the deputy director of the Computer Training Center (Számok) and the Computer Applications Company (Számalk), and later the head of the department.

Meanwhile, he was the editor-in-chief of the professional journals Információ-Elektronika, Számítástechnika, and later Mikrozámítógép Magazin.

In 1973-1974, he was a scholarship holder in the USA: he was an educational software development engineer at the Minneapolis-based Control Data company. At that time, the data protection law was published in the USA, which piqued his interest, and upon returning home, he worked on data protection and freedom of information at the Central Statistical Office (KSH) under Deputy President Lajos Pesti.

He was a member of the Working Group for the Protection of Data of Telecommunication, the so-called Berlin Group, from 1989. He was also a member of the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS). He is credited with drafting Act LXIII of 1992 on the Protection of Personal Data and the Disclosure of Data of Public Interest.

He was a member of the Telecommunications Interest Conciliation Forum from 1992; he was an internationally recognized authority in the fields of data protection and freedom of information.

For his work, the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences awarded him the Neumann Prize in 1986.