The President of the Personal Data Protection Office took part in the Q-Con Quantum Conference 2025

On 29 August, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, Mirosław Wróblewski, participated in the Q-Con Quantum Conference 2025, an event that brought together quantum technology experts, start-up founders and representatives of public institutions at the Library of the University of Gdańsk. The participants of the conference tried to answer the question of how to make Europe a leader of the global quantum revolution.

The President of the Personal Data Protection Office, Mirosław Wróblewski, gave a lecture entitled "Navigating GDPR deregulation. What startups need to know" ("Find your way in the deregulation of the GDPR. What start-ups need to know") in the opening part of the meeting.

As he pointed out, in recent years, new data protection options have emerged, which are offered primarily by quantum technologies (e.g. Quantum Key Distribution); They provide a strategic advantage for data controllers as they are able to provide long-term data protection, which is likely to increase customer trust across all industries.

However, as the President of the Personal Data Protection Office pointed out, quantum technology is also a potential threat, as quantum computers will be able to break the cryptographic algorithms commonly used today, and moreover, they will be able to decrypt historical data, and most organisations are not yet prepared to implement post-quantum security.

"On the one hand, the quantum era is a great opportunity for better control over data and greater security for citizens, and on the other hand, it is a risk for the possibility of exercising rights under the GDPR, such as the right to be forgotten (with regard to data from the past)," said Mirosław Wróblewski.

In this perspective, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office also explained the proposals for changes that the European Commission wants to introduce in connection with the simplification of the GDPR for small and medium-sized enterprises, including start-ups. They would allow the regulations to be adapted to the realities of the functioning of smaller entities and help them implement digital innovations, such as quantum technology. As important points for discussion, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office presented the conclusions of the conference of the Personal Data Protection Office and the Jagiellonian University in June this year, concerning the challenges posed by quantum reality, and the content of the declaration of the 23. Meetings of the Central and Eastern European Data Protection Group, which pointed to the need to strengthen data protection authorities and support for SMEs and NGOs in the context of the upcoming quantum revolution.

During the Gdańsk conference, Roman Bieda, a member of the Social Team of Experts by the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, also took the floor and presented the topic "The EU Quantum Strategy and the Post-Quantum Cryptography Roadmap: Legal and Policy Perspectives".