Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic ADVERTISEMENTLawmakers of the Parliament\u2019s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, LIBE, will tomorrow hear four candidates that are hoping to become the next European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) \u2013 the privacy watchdog of the EU institutions. The hearings were due last November but were delayed because the European Commission failed to draw up the shortlist before the mandate of the current EDPS, Wojciech Wiewi\u00f3rowski, expired on 5 December.Although the EDPS is not able to fine Big Tech companies for a privacy breach \u2014 that’s a competence of the national data protection authorities \u2014 its role as an advisor to those watchdogs is significant.\u00a0Later this year, the AI Act will start to apply, and national privacy watchdogs will see their privacy work more and more intertwined with AI,\u00a0which will enable the new EDPS to take an agenda setting role.\u00a0These four are vying to take on the role for the next mandate.Wojciech Wiewi\u00f3rowskiWiewi\u00f3rowski has been the EDPS since 2019. Before that, he was an Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor, working with the late Giovanni Butarelli, the Italian former EDPS. He also has experience in his native Poland as Inspector General at the Polish Data Protection Authority, and Vice Chair of the Working Party Article 29 Group.In 2024, as the EDPS, he probed the use of cloud providers by border control agency Frontex, provided advice on the AI liability rules and delivered an opinion on the AI Act, which possibly puts him at an advantage compared to the other three contestants.\u00a0In written answers to the LIBE committee, he said that he \u201cwill prioritise the discussion on the Artificial Intelligence.\u201d\u201cI am sure that EU institutions need in the nearest future guidelines on how Europe can play a leading role in ensuring the safe deployment of AI across a variety of sectors,\u201d he added.Fran\u00e7ois PellegriniComputer scientist Fran\u00e7ois Pellegrini is a professor at the University of Bordeaux and researcher at the Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory. He served between 2014 and 2024, as a member of the Board and Vice-President of the French data protection authority CNIL.At CNIL, he was in charge of sectors including e-commerce and cybersecurity, which will be very relevant as the European Commission is expected to re-assess existing cybersecurity legislation during this new mandate.\u00a0He told committee members in written answers that his vision of the future of the EDPS \u201cis that of an agile and proactive regulator, with cutting-edge legal and technical expertise\u201d, working together with counterparts, and being able to provide relevant opinions and advice to co-legislators and the EU.Bruno GencarelliGencarelli is an EU official with a long career in privacy: most recently he was a cabinet member of former EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, and head of the International Affairs and Data Flows Unit within the Commission.He was responsible for the Commission\u2019s work in the field of data protection in recent years including when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was discussed. Gencarelli also led negotiations of several data transfer agreements with third countries, such as the EU-Japan arrangement, and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.\u00a0His experience with US data exchanges might be of particular use as the EDPS probed whether the Commission\u2019s use of Microsoft 365 was legitimate, and as the current EU-US Data Privacy Framework is facing a legal challenge. In his answers to committee questions, he said that the agency will \u201chave to operate in a more complex governance system\u201d, alluding to developments around AI.ADVERTISEMENT\u201cIn that renewed environment, my top priority would be to ensure that the EDPS is ready for these changes, including the taking on of additional responsibilities that go beyond its ‘traditional’\u00a0role,\u201d he added.Anna PouliouUntil now, the role of EDPS \u2013 the job was created in 2004 \u2013 has always been awarded to men. Anna Pouliou, the current chair of the Data Protection Commission at CERN, the data protection supervisory authority of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, could be the first woman to get the job.Pouliou is an attorney, who has led corporate privacy teams including at consultancy Mars. She is also a lecturer in data governance, International Privacy Laws and Artificial Intelligence at the Universities of Saint-Gallen and Maastricht. Pouliou has also worked with the Commission on the GDPR: between 2017 and 2022, she was one of the 27 members of the GDPR Multi-Stakeholder Expert Group advising the European Commission on GDPR implementation on behalf of Business Europe.\u00a0She wrote to lawmakers that she wants the EDPS to become \u201ca global leader in the debate for innovation-friendly digital ethics and data governance.\u201dADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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