The appointment of Wojciech Wiewiórowski as the new European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) was confirmed on 5 December 2019. The Pole, who served as Assistant Supervisor under the late Giovanni Buttarelli during the 2014-2019 mandate, takes up his new position today.

Der Europäische Datenschutzbeauftragte (EDSB) führt eine Untersuchung bezüglich der Aktivitäten des Europäischen Parlaments im Zusammenhang mit der Europawahl 2019 durch. Dies wurde heute vom stellvertretenden EDSB bekannt gegeben. Konkret geht es darum, dass das Europäische Parlament ein in den USA ansässiges Unternehmen, das auf politische Kampagnen spezialisiert ist, mit der Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten beauftragt hatte.

Der Europäische Datenschutzbeauftragte (EDSB) wurde mit dem Global Privacy and Data Protection Award für Innovation ausgezeichnet. Die Auszeichnung würdigt die Bemühungen des EDSB, einen Website Evidence Collector zu entwickeln, und wurde auf der jährlichen International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) verliehen, die dieses Jahr in Tirana, Albanien, stattfand.

More than 300 guests attended a high-calibre panel discussion yesterday on the challenges for data protection and competitiveness in the digital age. Organised by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI), topics up for discussion included possibilities for cooperation between regulators and the challenges new technologies pose to effective data protection.

An inspection carried out by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on the websites of major EU institutions and bodies revealed data protection and data security issues in seven out of the ten websites inspected. Each of the institutions concerned has received recommendations from the EDPS on how to ensure their websites are fully compliant with data protection rules and the relevant institutions have reacted swiftly to start rectifying the problems identified, the European Data Protection Supervisor said today.

As the supervisory authority for all EU institutions, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is responsible for enforcing and monitoring their compliance with data protection rules. In this capacity, the EDPS is undertaking an investigation into the compliance of contractual arrangements concluded between the EU institutions and Microsoft, the European Data Protection Supervisor said today.