#EDPS participation at @privacysymp in Venice - @W_Wiewiorowski delivered a Keynote speech titled "EDPS Roadmap" outlining 3 EDPS priorities: ✅ Upholding EU data protection in the digital age ✅ Boosting EU-wide cooperation ✅ Strengthening global engagement

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The Europeans need to work up a plan with Ukraine to present to Trump. And fast. Otherwise a US/Russia deal on Ukraine - and much else besides - is going to be done over their heads. Now isn't the time to litigate the details of fiscal easing for defence. Now is the time to act

Here is the plan: x.com/zelenskyyua/status/189…

“Towards a Digital Clearinghouse 2.0” - Seminar organised by #EDPS to debate about the future of digital governance and effective enforcement in the digital world. Opening remarks by @buchtan on the need of cross-regulatory cooperation to address current governance fragmentation

Key statement from @VivianeRedingEU Says she wrote the GDPR to protect us from Big Tech & Government - not the village butcher & football team Unfortunately "national regulators looked more for the nitty gritty than for the real problems with the big platforms" #EDPSXX @EU_EDPS

🔎Zooming out onto democracy & rule of law. How to build a functioning democratic oversight? @buchtan Joe Cannataci @UMmalta @Daniel_Drewer @adam_i_klein @MOetheimerFRA Rebecca Richards @ODNIgov @twetzling #EDPSXX 1/2

#EDPSXX Book out now! Read our book in which our distinguished contributors retrace the rich and intertwining history of #dataprotection and our institution. They also share their insights on what the digital future holds. 📚 Download book for free europa.eu/!rBVqKy

🎂 It’s the #GDPR’s 6th Birthday TODAY! This data protection law aims to protect everyone in the EU, fostering transparency, accountability and trust between individuals, companies, organisations and online platforms. 🔍europa.eu/!qDdNqT

back in my day we called this spyware

Insights on the book “Coherence between Data Protection and Competition Law in Digital Markets” by @MajcherKlaudi, @sbarrosvale from #EDPS guides us in the journey of the interplay between #dataprotection and #competition law in conversation with the writer #CPDP

#CPDP in January? Here we go again! Thanks to the @CoE_DigitalGov, the @EU_EDPS and @CPDPconferences for organising this one-day amazing event for the #CPDPDataProtectionDay 2024. I’ll be pleased to speak today in the panel organised with @mantelero about Fundamental Rights Impacts of AI with @fredericoosilva, @sarahchander, Nele Roekens and Cédrine Morlière! It will be also fun to talk about vulnerability exploitation of children online at the EDPS - European Data Protection Supervisor Trainee panel with @gabrielazanfir, Jennifer Dolan, Chris Taylor, Jürgen Bänsch moderated by Elena Moraiti!

‘Tale of Two Courts: Lessons in Data Protection from Strasbourg and Luxembourg’ panel moderated by #EDPS @buchtan with Robert Spano, Johan Callewaert, Karsten Behn, @NoraNiLoideain to discuss recent #dataprotection developments in Courts of Strasbourg and Luxembourg #CPDP #DPD24

📢#SaveTheDate - 25 January 2024 For Data Protection Day, #EDPS, @coe, @Privacy_Salon, @CPDPconferences invite you to their conference in Brussels for pertinent discussions on Global data flows, #Digital governance, #AI, #GDPR harmonisation. Register here: cpdp-dataprotectionday.eu/

Geert Wilders victory is what happens more frequently in times of chaos, an indirect effect of allowing Russia's war on Ukraine to drag on instead of achieving the clarity of Ukrainian victory. Populists and extremists thrive on uncertainty, making bold, simple promises.

Also congratulations to the other 2023 W@Privacy awards nominees 👏@riealeksandra, Ginevra Feroni, Ninon Vagner 👏@IsabelleRoccia, Caroline Louveaux, Ruth Boardman 👏@KMojzesowicz, Marie Laure Denis, Marit Hansen 👏@VyaraSavova and Anja Wyrobek Keep on shining! 2/x

We would like to congratulate again the winners of the 2023 W@Privacy #Awards last week: ✨Privacy Pioneer @laumann ✨Privacy Icon - private sector @LauraLinkomies ✨Privacy Icon - public sector @jelinek_andrea ✨Rising Star @nataliabielova #eudatap #privacy 1/x

Being a judge of the @womenprivacy Award 2023 was such an honour and source of self-reflection. We should have more “privacy on women”. Data protection and gender studies should work more and more together against power imbalance. Thanks @buchtan and Finn Myristad for sharing this responsibility with me!

If thoughts, prayers, and condemnation prevented terror attacks and dictators waging war we'd be living in a paradise. But they don't. They must actually be fought like hell, as if our civilization depends on it, because it does.