On 4 July 2017, Giovanni Buttarelli to speak on the transition from the EU Art. 29 Working Party to the European Data Protection Board at the Privacy Law & Business 30th Anniversary Annual Conference. Other topics will include the need for a Digital ClearingHouse for regulators from different sectors and countries to have an exchange of views, as well as the digital ethics in the privacy debate.
On 28 June 2017, the Assistant Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski will participate in the conference 'A New Chapter for EU Data Protection: Managing accountability and compliance in the Reform era' hosted by the European Parliament’s Data Protection Service.
The event will inform about the potential changes the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), coming into force on 25 May 2018, might bring for EP officials, and how to tackle these new challenges.
Web streaming of the event is available here.
In the June 2017 edition of the EDPS Newsletter we introduce you to our new-look Newsletter and cover the EDPS Opinion on ePrivacy.
Other interesting topics, such as our continuing work on data ethics through #DataDrivenLife workshop, the launch of our 2016 Annual Report, the supervision of Europol and the first meeting of the Digital Clearinghouse are also covered.
The Annual Privacy Forum took place on 7 June 2017. Wojciech Wiewiórowski focused his speech on cybersecurity and Wannacry attack.
Read blogpost by Wojciech Wiewiórowski
The EDPS and the DPOs from the EU institutions and bodies met yesterday at eu-LISA to discuss, among others, about individuals’ rights under the revised Regulation on data protection.
Read blogpost by Wojciech Wiewiórowski.
EDPS welcomes the report of the High-level expert group on information systems and interoperability. Please read the EDPS statement on the concept of interoperability in the field of migration, asylum and security.
On 9 June 2017, the EDPS is hosting an IPEN workshop in Vienna.
The GDPR will become fully applicable less than a year after the workshop, and it will make data protection by design and by default a legal obligation for data controllers. Several presentations will address conceptual issues of privacy engineering.
The IPEN initiative was founded in 2014. It supports the creation of engineer groups working on (re)-usable building blocks, design patterns and other tools for selected internet use cases where privacy is at stake.
Web streaming of the event is available here.
Read the opening speech by Giovanni Buttarelli given at Workshop organised by the International Organization for Migration and the EDPS.
