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17/01/2024

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:

Replay the European Data Protection Summit
Delve into the rich History of EDPS
Watch our 20 Talks with influential personalities
Discover the 20 Initiatives to improve its work

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03/09/2024

IPEN event on “Human oversight of automated decision-making”

The EDPS and the University of Karlstad are hosting an IPEN event on "Human supervision of automated decisions" on 3 September 2024.

26/08/2024

My Blue Book Experience - Traineeship at the EDPS

Watch with us a short video of our Blue Book trainees who worked with us for 5-months! To be our next trainee, apply here!

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01/08/2024

Artificial Intelligence Act enters into force

Watch a video message by EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski.

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31/07/2024

EDPS unveils new model for safer transfers of personal data between EU Institutions and International Organisations

One of our institution's priorities is to ensure that individuals’ personal data is protected according to EU standards both inside and outside the EU/European Economic Area.

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Read Model Administrative Arrangement

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Agenda

4 September 2024 - 5 September 2024

Annual Privacy Forum, Participation of Wojciech Wiewiórowski in the event and a keynote talk, Karlstad, Sweden

3 September 2024

Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) workshop on Human oversight of automated decision-making, Welcome keynote by Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Karlstad, Sweden

27 August 2024

Wojciech Wiewiórowski joins discussion with the former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves "Can private messages really stay private? The future of encryption in Europe" during "Campus – the Future of Poland", Olsztyn, Poland

26 July 2024

Wojciech Wiewiórowski meeting with Piotr Serafin, Acting Permanent Representative of Poland to the EU, Gdansk, Poland

16 July 2024

95th Plenary Session of the EDPB, Participation Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Brussels, Belgium

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Blog

EDPS - DPO Network: Stronger together to face data protection challenges

21 June 2024

Leonardo CERVERA NAVAS

It’s that time of the year again! On Wednesday 19 June, the EDPS and the Data Protection Officers' (DPO) network of the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (EUIs) met for the first traditional bi-annual meeting of the year. On this occasion, the meeting was hosted jointly by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (CoR), in Brussels, Belgium.