Commissioner Milan Marinović and Deputy Commissioner Sanja Unković are participating in the International Privacy Symposium, traditionally held in Venice for the fourth year in a row, from 12 to 16 May. At this symposium, which this year is attended by several hundred participants from all over the world, the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner participated, along with seven other heads of Data Protection Authorities, including the Director of the Personal Data Protection Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Dragoljub Reljić, in a panel dedicated to the current situation and forms of cooperation between Data Protection Authorities that are not members of the European Data Protection Board (which includes representatives of EU member states).

The Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner particularly promoted the idea of future ​​establishing of electronic association for all authorities engaged in personal data protection, especially those outside the EU, to deepen and make the existing cooperation more efficient and thus strengthen the position of these authorities, all for better personal data protection at a time of great challenges to this right imposed by the rapid-growing personal data processing via modern technologies, especially artificial intelligence.

The Privacy Symposium also discussed the relationship between personal data protection and artificial intelligence regulations, health data protection, data processing in "smart cities", and data protection on social networks.