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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EDPS welcomes the adoption of the new Regulation governing data protection in the EU institutions and bodies by the European Parliament.
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Giovanni Buttarelli meets with Margarethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, Brussels, Belgium
"Industrial rEvolution 4.0", Speech by Giovanni Buttarelli (via video message) at II European Latvian Economic Forum, Riga, Latvia
Working Group on Data Format and Procedures, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski in the workshop and presentation of Smart metering Data Protection Impact Assessment Template, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Interoperable Solutions for the Large-Scale IT Systems in the EU, Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with rapporteurs, shadow rapporteurs and EU-LISA, European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Jeremy Liley, Policy Manager at techUK think tank, Brussels, Belgium
Surveillance for Public Security Purposes. Four pillars of acceptable interference in fundamental right to privacy, speech by Wojciech Wiewiórowski during a conference Right to privacy in the digital age, Fédération des Barreaux d’Europe (FBE), Warsaw, Poland
3rd Plenary Session of the EDPB, Participation of Giovanni Buttarelli and Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium
Protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons, and in particular the protection of personal data, with regard to Europol's activities, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski, 3rd meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group - Europol, Brussels, Belgium