The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI), Professor Ulrich Kelber, and the Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom (ICO), John Edwards, have reaffirmed the cooperation between their authorities at a meeting in Venice. To this end, they signed a joint declaration of intent.

The BfDI emphasises the importance of the ICO as a former member of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB): “Even though we no longer meet regularly in Brussels, the good relations between the ICO and the BfDI are important for international data protection. We see this in bodies such as the G7 or the Global Privacy Assembly, for example. In the International Working Group on Data Protection in Technology, for example, the ICO has demonstrated a way of working with its Future Foresight, which the BfDI has taken up and which we are now continuing together. These are concrete positive effects, which is why we want to organise and intensify the exchange with our British colleagues even more closely in the future.

The joint declaration of intent is intended to consolidate the existing cooperation between the BfDI and the ICO. The declaration also regulates the exchange of information between the two authorities and reaffirms the joint intention to work together on important international issues.

The declaration of intent was signed on the fringes of the Privacy Symposium in Venice, which the BfDI and the ICO are attending.

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