The term of office of the new Inspector General for Personal Data Protection has begun

On 4 August, Mr Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski took over the post of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection.

Today, he took an oath in the Diet which – in accordance with the procedure foreseen in the Act on the Protection of Personal Data – begins a four-year term of office.

Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski is a Doctor of Juridicial Science. His areas of scientific activity include first of all Polish and European law of new technologies, processing and security of information, role of legal information systems, informatisation of public administration, electronic signature and application of semantic network and legal ontologies in organising legal information.

He will use his knowledge and experience in this regard at the post of the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO). In his view, due to development of new technologies GIODO faces new tasks related to ensuring the protection of personal data and the right to privacy. Wojciech Wiewiórowski would like to perform these tasks in cooperation with social organisations and scientific environment.

Among other important matters the Inspector General enumerates the need to regulate the principles of functioning of social networking sites, semantic networks, so called Internet of Things, search engines and default settings of browsers. He believes that it is necessary to indicate the difference between public character of some types of data and full access to these data on the Internet.