It was announced in March this year that the Bulgarian Commission for Personal Data Protection and the European Data Protection Supervisor will be jointly hosting the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners* in October 2018.
For the first time in the conference’s almost 40-year history, it will be jointly hosted by an EU institution and a national supervisory authority.
In his recent announcement on the subject,Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor, shared that focus of the discussions will be Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven Life to explore broadly how data and those controlling that data are influencing our values.
The conference will look into questions such as: What is respect in the digital age? Is our autonomy eroded online? How can we preserve equality and human dignity in this millennium?
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With the advance in the organisation of the 2018 International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, a competition for logo design was announced. What is looked for is an eye-catching logo which would address the various stakeholders in the conferences, as well as the general public interested in privacy and data protection.
You could find the competition details and conditions for participation here.
The deadline for submissions is 25.08.2017.
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We will continue to follow the organisation the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners at our News page. The Bulgarian Commission for Personal Data Protection is a partner of LIBRe Foundation in the initiative Personal Data in the Digital Age - Adaptation of Short Educational Videos for Citizens in a Bulgarian Context. You could find more information about the project and view the videos published in partnership with CPDP and ApTI Romania here.
The International Conference is a worldwide annual forum at which independent regulators on privacy, data protection and freedom of information adopt high level resolutions and recommendations addressed to governments and international organisations.The Conference first met in 1979 and for almost four decades now, it has provided international leadership to data protection, privacy and freedom of information.It does so by connecting the efforts of 115 privacy and data protection authorities from across the globe.