noyb and Access Now hosted workshop on effective enforcement actions

noyb and Access Now jointly hosted the workshop “One year after GDPR: Advancing rights through effective enforcement actions” from May 8 to 10 in Vienna. The workshop aimed to share best practices on how to detect data protection violations and how to strategically lodge complaints with the various data protection authorities. Among the attendees were representatives from public authorities, consumer rights organisations, researchers and NGOs from across Europe including Privacy International, Bits of Freedom, Algorithmwatch, Data Rights, Open Rights Group, Digital Rights Ireland, D3 and Homo Digitalis. Collaboration on the European Level. The event was a great opportunity to join forces, collect feedback from practitioners and engage in fruitful discussions on the most strategic ways to advance citizens’ rights through effective enforcement actions. Collaborating at a European level between NGOs is a priority and, in this regard, the event certainly was a positive step towards the emp