Rights of the Individual

‘Consent or Pay’ has dominated headlines in the past few months as the world has eagerly anticipated the EDPB’s opinion on ‘Consent or Pay’ models implemented by Large Online Platforms. It was often said that, should the model have been accepted, the internet as we know it would have changed. Civil societies have highlighted that if ‘Consent or Pay’ would be permitted, it would not be limited to news pages or social networks but would be employed by any industry sector with an ability to monetise personal data via consent.

On 20 June 2024, we invite you to the European Data Protection Summit: “Rethinking Data in a Democratic Society”. This unique event brings together privacy experts, technology specialists, policy-makers, and other influential voices to discuss how data protection can safeguard our democratic society.

EDPS Opinion 8/2024 on the Proposal for a Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 on a temporary derogation from certain ePrivacy provisions for combating CSAM.

EDPS Opinion 40/2023 on the Proposal for a Regulation on European Statistics

EDPS Supervisory Opinion on EIT's internal rules concerning the restriction of certain data subject rights in relation to processing of personal data.