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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. Read also the EDPS 20th Anniversary Book: Two decades of personal data protection. What's next?

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

Portrait of Max Schrems in white background with blue semicircle on the left side and his affiliation

New Talk with Max Schrems is out!

Watch with us another episode with one of the most influential privacy activist and lawyer who became known for campaigns against privacy violations, advocating for stronger enforcement of data protection and privacy law against big tech companies

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TechSonar 2025

This year, we focused on the rapidly growing AI technologies and described how emerging trends could impact the rights and freedoms of individuals . In the report you will find critical overview of six trends. 

Participation by Wojciech Wiewiórowski in reception organised by the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Brussels, Belgium

99th Plenary Session of the EDPB, Participation Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium

"Transversal data protection enforcement issues", Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski at University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

EDPS-DPO Meeting, Keynote speech by Leonardo Cervera Navas and Closing remarks by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Luxembourg

Wojciech Wiewiórowski gives lecture at ECPC Maastricht Advanced Masters in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Protection at Fondation Universitaire Stichting, Brussels, Belgium