Events

EDPS and ENISA are co-organising the cyber exercise PATRICIA - Personal dATa bReach awareness in Cybersecurity Incident Handling, a table-top exercise focusing on personal data breach management. This initiative is organised in the framework of the EDPS 20th-anniversary activities and European Cybersecurity Month Campaign on 3 October 2024 from 08:45 to 16:00 in the EDPS premises.

The EDPS and the World Bank co-host the 2024 edition of the International Organisations Workshop on data protection - IOW on 23 and 24 September in Washington DC, US. This is the first edition of the Workshop convened outside of Europe reinforcing the global nature of the International Organisations’ network.

The EDPS and the University of Karlstad are hosting an Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) event on "Human supervision of automated decisions" on 3 September 2024 from 14:00 to 18:00 CEST, at Eva Eriksson lecture hall, Universitetsgatan 2, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden and online.

‘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.