The Latest Breaking News from EDPS

Denmark aims to break EU privacy chief deadlock before year's end

An impasse between EU lawmakers and national governments has held up the Data Protection Supervisor selection process for nearly a year.

Euronews · Nov 19, 2025

Ombudsman opens inquiry into Commission’s silence on EU privacy chief

The mandate of the current European Data Protection Supervisor expired in December, but no decision on the successor has been taken.

Euronews · Sep 1, 2025

Selection process for EU privacy chief triggers complaints to ombudsman

The mandate of the current privacy watchdog of the EU institutions expired in December last year.

Euronews · Aug 22, 2025

European Commission facing rebuke for using Microsoft 365

Insufficient safeguards for sharing personal data outside of the EU and EEA have landed Microsoft in trouble.

TechRadar · Mar 12, 2024

Europol data practices target of EU privacy watchdog lawsuit

EU data protection watchdog EDPS has asked Europe's top court to scrap amended rules allowing Europol to retroactively legalise its processing of personal data of people with no links to criminal activity, saying the rules undermine its authority.

Reuters · Sep 22, 2022

EU data watchdog calls for Pegasus spyware ban

EDPS says NSO Group’s software is ‘incompatible with our democratic values’ and should be banned in bloc

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2022

EU Watchdog Calls for Ban on Israel's Surveillance Tool Pegasus

The European Union's data protection watchdog called on Tuesday for a ban on the controversial spyware tool Pegasus, developed by Israeli-based NSO Group. The EDPS said use of Pegasus might lead to an "unprecedented level of intrusiveness, able to interfere with the most intimate aspects of our daily lives." Israel…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 15, 2022