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On June 25, the Polish Parliament elected Mr. Wojciech Rafal Wiewiórowski the new president of the Polish Data Protection Authority (hereinafter: DPA). His four-year term began on July 14.
Mr. Wiewiórowski is a lawyer and assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Gdansk where he conducts legal research in the fields of new technologies law, information security, computerization of public administration, data protection and electronic signatures. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as an advisor on computerization issues in the political office of the Minister of Interior and Administration. In October 2008, he was appointed the director of the Computerization Department for the Ministry of Interior and Administration.
During a public debate hosted at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw on June 23, prior to his election, Mr. Wiewiórowski declared that one of his priorities would be the protection of personal data in social networking sites such as Facebook. Additionally, he showed interest in Internet-related data protection issues and also pointed to the need for rule changes in minor matters, such as disclosures of tenant lists.
More information can be found in the press release
(in Polish).
