European Supervisory Authorities exchange knowledge on case handling
Mr Mirosław Wróblewski - the President of the Personal Data Protection Office took part in the opening of the European Case Handling Workshop (ECHW2025), which takes place on 17-19 November 2025 in Pristina, Kosovo.
This year's edition of ECHW 2025 is organized by the Information and Privacy Agency of Kosovo. The workshop aims at exchanging knowledge and experience on complaints cases handled by supervisory authorities, comparing procedures applicable in such proceedings. The meeting also aims at improving a manner in which cross-border complaints are handled. This is an opportunity to strengthen cooperation and discuss the most urgent developments in the field of data protection.
During his speech, Mirosław Wróblewski, the President of the Personal Data Protection Office, stressed that the right to personal data protection is part of fundamental human rights. "We should further increase the efficiency of proceedings to ensure that these rights are protected," he said.
The President of the Personal Data Protection Office also drew attention to the problem of children who spend most of their time online after school, as shown by the report ‘Children’s Internet. Report on monitoring the online presence of children and young people’ issued by the State Commission for the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Minors under the age of 15 and the ‘Institute of Digital Citizenship’ Foundation. According to the report, 91% of children between the ages of 7 and 14 have connected to the internet at least once a day and used it for as many as 4 hours and 29 minutes.
"This shows that the internet is almost a living environment of young people and it justifies the need for our activities to protect their rights. This is the reason for, among other things, our actions in the fight against scams and deepfakes on the Internet," said Mirosław Wróblewski.
He stated that although for many organisations fighting against negative phenomena on the web may seem burdensome over time they should see that this will be an added value for the organization.
Aleksander Skórczyński, Head of the Cross-border Proceedings Unit in the International Cooperation Department of the Personal Data Protection Office presented the details of the cases handling by the Polish supervisory authority, which concerns the deepfake phenomenon. The issue was discussed based on the example of deepfakes that appear on social platforms. He pointed out that their operators demand that complaints about the use of someone's image on social media be addressed directly to the author of such an entry. In practice, as noted by Aleksander Skórczyński, it is difficult for complainants to identify the authors of such posts and this is not possible without the involvement of a data controller.
He also discussed the relationship between the GDPR (which regulates the processing of personal data) and the Digital Services Act (which deals with illegal content and platform obligations). He pointed out that the regulations of these legal acts overlap when illegal content contains personal data.