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17/01/2024

EDPS Anniversary: celebrating 20 years of protecting personal data

Since 2004, the EDPS protects the personal data of EU citizens and guides EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies so that they are exemplary in upholding data protection principles. The celebration of these two decades is an opportunity to reflect on past, present, and future challenges for a modern regulator in order to pave the way forward for the next 20 years.

Read the blogpost and watch the video of Wojciech Wiewiórowski presenting the EDPS 20th anniversary's activities.

Explore the 20th Anniversary website and learn about its four pillars:

Join the European Data Protection Summit on 20 June 2024 - Register now!
Delve into the rich History of EDPS
Watch our 20 Talks with influential personalities
Discover the 20 Initiatives to improve its work

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09/04/2024

EDPS Annual Report: adaptability in a changing world

The EDPS presents its Annual Report 2023, summarising its key achievements in an evolving digital and regulatory landscape.

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12/04/2024

20 Talks - Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary General's Envoy on Technology

In this episode, our guest is Amandeep Singh Gill, UN Secretary General's Envoy on Technology.

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08/04/2024

Register now for the European Data Protection Summit

Registration is open for our European Data Protection Summit: “Rethinking Data in a Democratic Society”, taking place on 20 June 2024 in Brussels and online.

02/04/2024

20 Talks - Towela Nyirenda Jere: Head of Infrastructure, Digitalisation and Energy Division at the African Union Development Agency

Our guest is Towela Nyirenda Jere, Head of Infrastructure, Digitalisation and Energy Division at the African Union Development Agency.

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Agenda

3 May 2024

Leonardo Cervera Navas pays a visit to the Colegio Maristas Nuestra Señora de la Victoria in the context of the programme "Back to School for the Euope Day", Málaga, Spain

30 April 2024

Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Mrs Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

19 April 2024

"EU cooperation in data protection in practice", Lecture by Wojciech Wiewiórowski at the VUB, Brussels, Belgium

18 April 2024

'Ambassadors of Iberoamerica', Participation by Leonardo Cervera Navas, Brussels, Belgium

17 April 2024

Leonardo Cervera Navas meeting with Meritxell Borràs, Director of the Catalunian Data Protection Authority, Brussels, Belgium

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Blog

Two decades of protecting privacy and data protection to fuel the future

17 January 2024

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

20 years ago, on 17 January 2004, the EDPS set out on its mission to build an independent authority that protects people’s fundamental rights to privacy and data protection.

Since then, the way personal data is processed and the digital landscape as a whole have considerably evolved. The EDPS too has changed. As an institution, we have become stronger, bolder, with one constant drive: our appetite and ambition to protect people, to influence and steer the development of data protection and its governing rules across the European Union (EU).