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Web privacy checks made easy by #EDPS. 🍪Cookies or 📍trackers constantly interact with your #personaldata. To bring transparency, we built the Website Evidence Collector or #WEC – a free, open-source tool to automatically audit site compliance. #ICYMI learn more how to use it: link.europa.eu/cmngKG
Data Protection Checked 🔏✅ #EDPS is committed to helping EUIs protect your #personaldata in Europe & beyond. Supervision is one of our core tasks. By guiding EUIs we help them lead by example in #dataprotection. 🔗#ICYMI, read more about our impact: link.europa.eu/8BKKXk
🚀 Five months on, with countless experiences and a trainee-led conference on AI in HR practices behind them, our #BlueBook trainees look back in the latest #EDPSonAir. 🎧 link.europa.eu/m38xfp
#EDPS Wojciech Wiewiórowski took part in two days of work at the EDPB High-Level Meeting in Dublin, on cross-regulatory cooperation & consistency in enforcement. EDPB has called for a clear legal basis for cross-regulatory information sharing EDPB press release link.europa.eu/vpRBhn #EDPBDublin2026
The conference concluded with closing remarks by Isabelle Vereecken, Head of the EDPB Secretariat, who addressed the audience with perspectives on data protection, the use of personal data by AI tools, the benefits and the risks when assessing candidates.
The panel titled ‘From application to selection’ featured prof. Christopher Kuner, Mario Guglielmetti, Amandine Jambert & Meropi Voyatzi. The discussion looked into the potential of AI technologies, alongside the challenges they bring in ensuring data protection, transparency, and respect for rights
#EDPS Secretary General Leonardo Cervera Navas addressed in his Keynote speech focused on the importance of human oversight, "AI hiring tools could exacerbate existing biases and further alienate minorities. Nevertheless, current hiring practices are unsustainable without technological support.
EDPS Secretary General Leonardo Cervera Navas at the UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance: "We need to reshape the conversation on AI from the technical towards a human-centric discussion. Against the concentration of wealth and power, we need to support sovereignty and moral purpose."
#EDPS Secretary General Leonardo Cervera Navas at #UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance: "AI Governance is not about fearing technology, but about setting conditions for trust. We do not ground planes because of risks. We regulate aviation at highest standards. The same logic must apply to #AI
What is hiding behind the world’s most famous landmarks? Petra survived because it was preserved. Pompeii was buried & left waiting to be discovered. 🤳Your digital life works the same way. Delete unused accounts, remove old data, & back up important files regularly, including one offline backup.
What is hiding behind the world’s most famous landmarks? Your cybersecurity should work the same way. 🗝️ Use strong unique passwords with a password manager + 2FA. ✅️ Review app permissions regularly. 🍪 Revisit cookie and tracking settings. Security is ongoing design, not a one-time setup.
Automated decision-making systems are increasingly impacting on individuals' fundamental rights and freedoms, from access to services, to legal outcomes. Human oversight is often proposed as the key safeguard. But is it always as effective as we think? Read our checklist link.europa.eu/K3RDTd
#EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski and Sirpa Rautio, Director of @fra.europa.eu, signed an updated memorandum of understanding. The MoU intends to renew the commitment to increase cooperation to enhance the protection of fundamental rights of individuals. Read here link.europa.eu/mCHpPX
On 1 July 2026, Ireland takes over the Presidency of @consilium.europa.eu. EDPS welcomes the #Ireland2026EU intention to foster a broader reflection on EU digital policymaking and ambition to reach an agreement on the forthcoming amendments to #EUDPR 1/3
#EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski opened the worskhop underlining: "Risk assessment enables organisations to understand the potential consequences of an incident, to prioritise their response and, where necessary, to communicate openly with the individuals concerned".
1st edition of ARETE - the Assessment of Risk to individuals of pErsonal daTa brEaches; a training exercise designed to strengthen risk assessment capabilities across EUIs 📃PATRICIA I: lnkd.in/et8uPgwa 📃PATRICIA II: lnkd.in/em9pCzaf 📃PATRICIA III: lnkd.in/eysjSfy6 📃ARETE lnkd.in/eYSvRu5k
#G7 of Data protection and Privacy authorities gathered in Paris on 25-26 June, hosted by the CNIL under the French G7 Presidency. Two key documents were adopted: ✅ Statement on privacy-preserving age assurance ✅ Joint paper on connected home devices 🔗 link.europa.eu/vYrMM7
New episode of #NewsletterDigest explores the future of #EU digital landscape through 4 key topics: the EC's Digital Omnibus debate, protecting health data across borders, safeguards for the EU VAP chatbot & transparency in the use of #EUfunds. 🎧 Have a listen & discover more: link.europa.eu/QbnjRg
Privacy Research Day in Paris, part of the #G7 Data Protection Week, #EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski delivered a keynote on #TechSonar & #TechDispatch, the two EDPS' foresight tools for monitoring emerging technologies and their impact on fundamental rights. 📃 Discover more link.europa.eu/96kY4x
Famous landmarks teach a simple lesson: The Eiffel Tower is constantly repaired. The Great Wall of China shows the limits of high walls. Pyramids kept things private. Your digital enviro needs maintenance too. ✅Keep software updated. ✅Clean your inbox regularly. ✅Use private browsing when needed.
EDPS Secretary General Leonardo Cervera Navas: "Practical and face-to-face exchanges of this kind remain essential to supporting compliance and strengthening data protection across the EU administration."
Luis Velasco, Head of the Technology and Privacy Unit, announced that updated #AI risk management guidance will be published this summer and warned of the growing threat of cyberattacks targeting EU institutions and the risks to personal data.
Thomas Zerdick, Head of the Supervision and Enforcement Unit, introduced a follow-up tracker to strengthen continuity between meetings and presented updates on complaint-handling, #internationaltransfers, #DPIAs and recent case law.