European Data Protection Supervisor
The EU's independent data protection authority
The EDPS issues roughly four newsletters every year. Running through the main developments in the EDPS activities, the newsletter gives a snapshot of recently adopted opinions and other documents (legislative opinions, comments, prior check opinions, etc.). It also lists newly appointed Data Protection Officers, presents recent speeches from the EDPS and the Assistant EDPS, as well as events in the field of data protection.
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The 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners took place in Brussels from 22-26 October. Data protection authorities, experts, representatives from NGOs, business, technology and government met to Debate Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven Life. Watch the highlight videos here!
Extraordinary Plenary Session of the EDPB, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium
National Conference "Are we spied"?, 17° edition of P. Piazzano prize for scientific journalism, Speech by Giovanni Buttarelli (via videomessage) at "Amedeo Avogadro" University, Novata, Italy
Data Protection Africa Summit, Speech by Giovanni Buttarelli (via videomessage), Republic of Mauritius
Data Protection World Forum, Panel Discussion: Brexit: The difference between deal and no-deal, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski, London, UK
Data Protection World Forum, Global development of privacy law, Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, London, UK
Freedom AND Security, Killing the zero sum process, Moving away from the 'freedom vs. security' tune, Keynote by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, The Hague, The Netherlands
Data Protection and Information Congress, Speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski (via a video link), Łódź, Poland