Wojciech Wiewiórowski

European Data Protection Supervisor

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) since December 2019.

Adjunct professor in the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk. He was among others adviser in the field of e-government and information society for the Minister of Interior and Administration, the Director of the Informatisation Department at the Ministry of Interior and Administration. He also represented Poland in committee on Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (the ISA Committee) assisting the European Commission.

The Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (Polish Data Protection Commissioner) 2010-2014 and the Vice Chair of the Working Party Art. 29 in 2014. In December 2014, he was appointed as Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor while in December 2019 he became the new Supervisor.

His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European IT law, processing and security of information, legal information retrieval systems, informatisation of public administration, and application of new IT tools (semantic web, legal ontologies, cloud, blockchain) in legal information processing.

 

Contributions by Wojciech Wiewiórowski

  • AI High-risk Value Chain: Who is Responsible for What?
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025
  • What to Expect from Europe’s Top Regulators Regarding the EU’s Digital Strategy
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024
  • EU AI Act Comprehensive 7: Enforcement and Fines
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • Orchestrating a Symphony: Harmonizing Privacy with Other Policy Considerations
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Great Expectations: Will the EU’s Data Strategy Laws Change the Digital World?
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Behavioural Biometrics: A Clash Between Privacy and Security?
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Policy & Progress: Discussion with the European Data Protection Supervisor
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • Policy and Progress: The EDPB Chair and EDPS in Conversation
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Privacy World Wrap-up: Most interesting EU and Polish cases, fines and guidelines of 2020
    Speaker at Virtual Poland KnowledgeNet: 2 June 2021
  • Why the 3LoD Model No Longer Works When Privacy Compliance Itself is Subject
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Commoditization of Data: Potentials and Pitfalls of Data Dividend Proposals
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2020 - Cancelled