Hi !
The summer is over, and we in the national DPIA project are back to work after the vacation, planning for the fall, and particularly for Arendalsuka next week.
There, along with KiNS, we will have a panel discussion on what we can learn from others who have centralized assessments like our national DPIA for Google Workspace for Education.
Will you be at Arendalsuka? Join this panel discussion! Wednesday, 14.08 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. More information here.
The event will be streamed via KiNS here, so if you're not physically present, you can follow along on the internet!
And for you English speakers, you are in luck! This panel will be conducted in English.
Participants in the panel:
- Bas Dekker, Senior Legal Counsel, Ministry of Justice and Security - Netherlands
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Seila Agagic, Senior Legal Counsel, Ministry of Justice and Security - Netherlands
- Morten Rosenkvist, Director, Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
- António Gonçalves, Privacy Regulatory Affairs Lead, Google Cloud
- Ida Thorsrud, Project Manager, national Google DPIA, KS
The discussion will be moderated by Christian Sørbye Larsen, project manager of SkoleSec, KS
What can we learn from the Netherlands?
In the panel discussion, we are fortunate to have guests from the Netherlands. The Dutch authorities have long had a dedicated agency under their Ministry of Justice and Security working on vendor management for the biggest technology giants (Microsoft, Amazon, and Google).
The problem is well known: nearly all public agencies use many of the same services and products from these companies and must make the same assessments on privacy and information security. There is thus a great potential in centralizing these assessments.
The Netherlands has done this, and we are fortunate to hear what tips they have for us. The Ministry of Education has indeed tasked the Directorate for Education with exploring what support services for information security, privacy, and universal design could look like for school owners.
We are excited!
I wish you a wonderful, privacy-friendly week-end!
Best regards,
Ida Thorsrud
Project manager national DPIA
This newsletter was translated from Norwegian to English with assistance from ChatGPT by OpenAI. While it guided our translation, we made independent editorial choices. Any discrepancies result from this combined approach.