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(10 June 2025). The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have published a joint report analysing the key role of Federated Learning as a tool to advance artificial intelligence models that are more respectful of the protection of personal data.…

26 February 2025. Lorenzo Cotino Hueso and Francisco Pérez Bes have been appointed, respectively, president and deputy, of the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD), appointments that follow an evaluation of their merit, capacity, competence and suitability by a selection committee and after…

(Madrid, 18 November 2024). Today, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the Spanish General Council of Psychology (COP) launched their campaign ‘There are more risks on the internet than in real life’, aimed at enabling families to assess the consequences of giving their children a device…

The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the Atresmedia Foundation join forces to warn about the dangers of minors accessing inappropriate content via mobile phones and to promote support in the use of technology in children and adolescents.  To this end, both entities launch the ‘No to…

The age verification system proposed by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) to protect children and adolescents on the internet has been recognised with two of the five awards of the 46th Global Privacy Assembly, which brings together data protection and privacy authorities globally.The…

(2 October 2024). The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has published ‘A Safe Internet by default for children and the role of age verification’, in which it analyses how children and adolescents can be protected on the internet without this entailing surveillance and invasion of the privacy of…

(17 September 2024). The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has issued guidance on ‘Responsibility and obligations in the use of mobile digital devices in early childhood, primary and secondary education’, analysing the implications that the use of this technology may have and what principles…

(10 July 2024). The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has presented a report analysing how the processing of users’ personal data in many platforms, applications and services includes addictive patterns to increase their connection time. This presentation took place during the course, New…

(4th June 2024). Last March, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) issued a precautionary measure ordering Tools for Humanity Corporation to cease the collection and processing of personal data that it was carrying out in Spain within the framework of its Worldcoin project.In the meantime…

(31th May 2024). The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has ordered a precautionary measure against Meta Platforms Ireland Limited so that, immediately and in view of the upcoming European Parliament elections, it suspends in Spanish territory the launch of the Election Day Information (EDI) and…