Article New chair of the Polish DPA appointed Jan Nowak, previously a general manager at the DPA’s office and a long-term member of PiS, the ruling party, will become the new chair of the Polish Data Protection Authority. The nomination raised controversy as to whether Jan Nowak meets the legal requirements for this position. 11.04.2019 Text
other Reopening the GDPR is a threat to rights, accountability, and the future of EU digital policy In a joint letter, EDRi, together with 107 civil society organisations, academics, companies, trade unions, and experts is calling on the European Commission to reject any reopening of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and to reaffirm it as a cornerstone of of the 19.05.2025
Article Personal Data: Nothing to hide?, re:publica 2013 [VIDEO] Do we really need data protection in this world? Katarzyna Szymielewicz (Panoptykon Foundation) and Jérémie Zimmermann (La Quadrature du Net) talk about usage of data collected in Internet by private companies and changes that new data protection regulation could bring, including explicit consent for data processing as a rule, information about data processing presented in clear manner, regulation of profiling and privacy by default concept. 06.05.2013 Text
Article CPDP 2017 Videos from the Computers, Privacy & Data Protection 2017: The Age of the Intelligent Machines are already available (featuring Katarzyna Szymielewicz, the Panoptykon Foundation president). 09.02.2017 Text