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Accountability needs technology! - read the latest blogpost by Wojciech Wiewiórowski.

The EDPS, in collaboration with European consumer organisation BEUC, is hosting a joint conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement. The conference will take place in Brussels on 29 September 2016. For more information on the conference and how to register, visit the EDPS Events page.

Our IT services are undergoing scheduled maintenance from 12 to 15 August. Please note that, for technical reasons, we cannot guarantee that the complaints and annexed files submitted during this period will reach us - despite a possible acknowledgement of receipt. Should you not receive any acknowledgement of receipt within 10 working days from submitting your complaint, please do let us know.

ePrivacy rules should be smarter, clearer, stronger. Read the EDPS opinion and the press release.

Data protection and Whistleblowing in the EU Institutions. Please read the EDPS guidelines and the press release.

The EDPS’ free app, EU Data Protection, has been updated! You can now consult the texts of General Data Protection Regulation (REG) 2016/679 and the Directive 2016/680 for the police and criminal justice sector alongside the texts they replace.

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Re-focusing on the human dimension of data protection - read the latest blogpost by Wojciech Wiewiórowski.

Video recordings of the EDPS meeting with civil society organisations on the state of data protection and privacy in the EU are now available here : part 1, part 2.

Convention 108: from a European reality to a global treaty. Read the speech by Giovanni Buttarelli given at the Council of Europe International Conference.