The Personal Data Protection Office invites young people to participate in internships at the Office as part of the Career Campus

On April 16, 2026, at the Faculty of Social Sciences of VIZJA University at 59 Okopowa Street, an event was held during which numerous institutions and government agencies responsible for security in the broadest sense encouraged young people to seek employment with them. Employees of the Personal Data Protection Office also presented their presentation and booth.

The Career Campus was aimed at students in partner classes and those in uniformed services programs, as well as students majoring in fields such as law, public administration, internal security, management, criminology, and forensic science. The goal was to enable young people to establish direct contact with representatives of uniformed services and other institutions responsible for public safety.

A representative of the Personal Data Protection Office, Bartosz Sotomski, Assistant to the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, highlighted in his speech the Office’s core responsibilities, such as verifying compliance with personal data protection regulations (both Polish and EU), issuing guidelines and interpretations of the GDPR, as well as conducting inspections, reviewing complaints, and issuing decisions in cases of violations of these regulations. We must also not forget about conducting extensive educational activities on data protection.

The presentation also outlined the sources from which the Personal Data Protection Office gathers information about issues related to the processing of personal data. In addition to the daily analysis of changing regulations and court rulings, these sources include inquiries received by the Office (including those from journalists), media reports, and inspections conducted by the Office. Reports of data breaches received by the Office, as well as cooperation with national, European, and international institutions, are also important sources of knowledge. The Personal Data Protection Office also cooperates with data protection officers, meets with citizens and businesses as part of the “The Personal Data Protection Office Goes on the Road” campaign, and participates in numerous educational events, including the “Your Data – Your Concern” program aimed at schools.

Considerable attention was also devoted to explaining the issue of processing images of minors and the need to obtain consent for such processing, a matter to which the Personal Data Protection Office attaches great importance. The Personal Data Protection Office representative also highlighted the risks that AI tools pose to data protection (inter alia in the context of spoofing, where scammers impersonate real phone numbers or mimic the voices of real people, and the related challenges that the supervisory authority faces on a daily basis.

At the Personal Data Protection Office booth, event participants had the opportunity to learn about internship opportunities at the Office.