Meeting of the management of the Personal Data Protection Office and the National Electoral Office

Training meeting of the management of the Personal Data Protection Office and the National Electoral Office

On 27 October 2025, a meeting of the management of the Personal Data Protection Office and the National Electoral Office was held at the headquarters of the Personal Data Protection Office in Warsaw. The aim of the meeting was to discuss problems related to the processing of personal data in the context of the broadly understood electoral process. During the meeting, current problems related to the organisation of general elections were raised. Areas of risk and an attempt to solve existing problems in order to increase the security of personal data were discussed.

The meeting was of a working nature and was an opportunity to exchange experiences and observations. Among inter alia, the issues of appointing data protection officers by election committees or mechanisms for efficient detection and handling of breaches were discussed.

Mirosław Wróblewski, President of the Personal Data Protection Office, drew attention to the supervisory authority's great concern for improving the quality of the law. He mentioned numerous comments on legal acts and trainings that the Office organises for legislators. He also referred to the guide entitled "Personal data protection in the election campaign". It is necessary to systematise and strengthen access to registers, including the electoral register. This is a necessary condition for exercising control over the security of personal data in the electoral process," added Mirosław Wróblewski.

Rafał Tkacz, Ph.D., Head of the National Electoral Office, Secretary of the State Election Commission, who was present at the meeting, emphasised that taking into account the dynamics of the electoral process related to the elections, its scope in connection with the organisation of elections both in the territory of the Republic of Poland and abroad, he sees the need to recall the basic principles of personal data protection and the right to privacy, which should be observed during election campaigns.

"It is difficult to imagine that elections are not the key to ensuring democracy. The activities of the election office are related to the processing of personal data, but the elections must be subject to constant control and discipline. This process needs help and cooperation at many levels," said Monika Krasińska, Director of the Law and New Technologies Department, the Personal Data Protection Office.

The most important issues of personal data protection from the perspective of election organisation were discussed by Lech Gajzler, Director of the Legal Team and Election Organization and Beata Duch-Kosiorek, Data Protection Office, the National Electoral Office.