
Published by Alisha McKerron
In celebration of today’s Data Privacy Day and in the spirit of empowering individuals and businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust, I have compiled a list of EU supervisory authorities (a.k.a data protection authorities) in the 27 EU member states, with links to their website:
- Austria Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde
- Belgium Autorité de protection des données
- Bulgaria Commission for Personal Data Protection
- Croatia Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency
- Cyprus Commissioner for Personal Data
- Czech Republic The Office for Personal Data Protection
- Denmark Datatilsynet
- Estonia Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate
- Finland Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman
- France Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés – CNIL
- Germany splits complaints amongst a number of different agencies; to sort out which one applies use: Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit
- Greece Hellenic Data Protection Authority
- Hungary National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
- Ireland Data Protection Commissioner
- Italy Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Latvia Data State Inspectorate
- Lithuania State Data Protection Inspectorate
- Luxembourg Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données
- Malta Information and Data Protection Commissioner
- Netherlands Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
- Poland The Bureau of the Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data – GIODO
- Portugal Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados – CNPD
- Romania The National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing
- Slovakia Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic
- Slovenia Information Commissioner
- Spain Agencia de Protección de Datos
- Sweden Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection ( IMY)
Privacy authorities in non-EU member states which together with the 27 EU members states make up the European Economic Area include:
- Iceland Icelandic Data Protection Agency
- Liechtenstein Datenschutzstelle
- Norway Datatilsynet
What may also be of interest is the following list of countries, which have been recognised by the European Commission as providing adequate privacy protection:
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Canada
- Faroe Islands
- Guernsey
- Israel
- Isle of Man
- Japan
- Jersey
- New Zealand
- Switzerland
- Uruguay