The Personal Data Protection Office on tour across Poland

On 26 September this year Mirosław Wróblewski, President of the Personal Data Protection Office, will begin nationwide meetings with residents and provincial and local authorities. The aim of the new initiative of the Personal Data Protection Office is to improve understanding of local data protection problems. The first point of the action is a meeting in Tarnów with representatives of local authorities and in Kraków with city residents.

During the event, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office and his associates will meet at the delegation of the Małopolska Voivodeship Office in Tarnów - thanks to the hospitality of the Małopolska Governor - with commune mayors and city presidents of Małopolska Voivodeship. The discussions are to focus on the issue of personal data protection in local government units. The Personal Data Protection Office will also conduct a training course for privacy officers from local government units.

‘The Personal Data Protection Office is moving into the country - it is an activity that aims to bring the issue of data protection and the Personal Data Protection Office closer to the residents of Poland, but also for the employees of the Personal Data Protection Office to become better acquainted with the problems related to personal data protection faced by local communities, local government units in different regions of Poland,’ explains Mirosław Wróblewski, President of the Personal Data Protection Office.

‘The Personal Data Protection Office has no local units, and data protection issues or unusual data protection problems occur wherever people are.’ He adds.

On that day at the Krakow City Hall, 10 Powstania Warszawskiego Avenue, there will be an opportunity to consult and discuss issues related to personal data protection with employees of the Personal Data Protection Office. They will be on duty from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in a designated place on the ground floor of the Krakow City Hall building. All those interested, in particular the residents of Krakow and personal data protection officers, are encouraged to take the opportunity to consult issues related to personal data protection and the right to privacy.

The on-call experts of the Personal Data Protection Office will provide legal advice on the protection of personal data and answer questions related to this topic.

‘It is therefore important to get in touch with local authorities who, as controllers, process a lot of their residents' data. It is also equally important to bring the issue of data protection closer to the residents of the respective regions by means of examples of their specific problems or situations.’ - says Mirosław Wroblewski.

Similar meetings between the President and staff of the Personal Data Protection Office will be held in further provinces as part of and as agreed with provincial and local authorities.