The EDPB Has Experts at the Ready. It's a Pity They Don't Really Use Them
The sad state of the EDPB "Support Pool of Experts"
Did you know that the European Data Protection Board has 486 approved subject-matter experts on call? And that they've relied on only around 2% of them since 2022? I didn't, at least not until I made an information request. Here's what else I discovered.
The Support Pool of Experts
In February 2022, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) put out an expression of interest seeking subject matter experts across a variety of domains. The goal was to bring experts and supervisory authorities (SAs) together by providing qualified, Board-approved legal and technical expert assistance across a broad range of areas including
IT auditing, website security, mobile OS and apps, IoT, cloud-computing, behavioural advertising, anonymization techniques, cryptology, AI, UX design, Fintech, Data science, digital law, etc.
This "Support Pool of Experts" (SPE) would assist SAs at "different stages of their investigation and enforcement activities in the field of data protection law”, including:
providing …
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