Preserving the confidentiality of communications is essential to fundamental rights
EDPS issues Opinion on the proposed Regulation to extend the temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive to combat child sexual abuse online. Read Press Release & Opinion.Each year on 28 January, we celebrate Data Protection Day. This date commemorates the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108, the first binding international law securing individuals' rights to protection of their personal data.Happy Data Protection Day! Listen to our Q&A with the EDPS' Data Protection OfficerThe EDPS makes a series of recommendations on four key issues in the proposed Regulation that could have an important impact on individuals’ personal data and privacy. To found out the EDPS' detailed advice to the EU's co-legislators, read Press Release and Opinion.Join us on 25 January 2024 in Brussels at the Computers, Privacy, Data Protection conference organised by the EDPS, the Privacy Salon, CPDP colleagues, and the Council of Europe to mark Data Protection Day. Mor