Hi !
Youâve read the headline, so you already know: we won the âPrivacy in Practiceâ award, which is handed out annually at the âPrivacy Daysâ conference in Trondheim.
This award is meant âto honor a person, project, or organization(s) that are making a difference in improving privacy in our society.â
We are very proud to share this award with all the municipalities that have participated in our projects, and we especially want to thank the participants in the Google DPIA! You were, in many ways, the pilot group and made a tremendous effort!
Thank you to your employers who took a chance and gave you the time to participate in our projects, even though you all have incredibly busy everyday lives.
Thank you to Bergen Municipality, who, after the HelsingĂžr case, took the initiative for the Google DPIA. You were, in many ways, the catalyst, and this likely wouldnât have started without your push.
Thank you to KS for choosing to prioritize the Google DPIA within the SkoleSec project, even before the project had received external funding.
Thank you to the Ministry of Education and Research, the Directorate for Education and Training, and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development for providing funding to continue the project.
Thank you to our partners â whether municipalities, county municipalities, municipal ICT collaborations, KiNS, or our friends in the Netherlands. You have all given us professional guidance we could not have done without.
Thank you to Google for a particularly fruitful collaboration, even when we disagreed on technical issues or came from different perspectives.
Thank you to SkoleSec and project manager Christian SĂžrbye Larsen for excellent project leadership and collaboration.
Thanks to the entire privacy team in SkoleSec! You have been invaluable in the day-to-day work where unexpected challenges constantly arise, and in the long-term effort to secure ongoing operational support year after year so that the project can continue. You are the best team we could imagine working with!
And finally, thank you to the project manager of the national DPIA for the use of Google Workspace for Education in schools, Ida Thorsrud, for successfully navigating what will hopefully be the first of several national DPIAs in the education sector.
We wish you a wonderful, privacy-friendly week-end!
Best regards,
Ida Thorsrud
Project manager national DPIA
and
Christian SĂžrbye Larsen
Project manager SkoleSec
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.