The Commissioner's Participation in Privacy School
On January 26, 2024, the Commissioner hosted on his premises the participants of the Privacy School organized by Partners for Democratic Change. About twenty participants in this course had the opportunity to learn more about the developments of the legal framework for personal data protection in Serbia and the organizational structure of the Commissioner. The Head of the Education Department, Marko Milošević, acquainted the course participants with this development path, the position and competencies of the Commissioner. Presentation of characteristic surveillance cases showed the development of organizational, technical, and personnel measures and also the general raising of data protection awareness. Characteristic cases were presented by Senior Advisor Marin Cetinić, and in the discussion that followed, in addition to the said lecturer, Milan Tomanović, head of the Department in the Sector for Supervision of Personal Data Protection, took part.
On December 18, 2023, Commissioner Milan Marinović met with representatives of the SHARE Foundation, Danilo Krivokapić and Andrej Petrovski, with whom he discussed current topics in the field of personal data protection. On that occasion, representatives of the SHARE Foundation presented the Commissioner and his associates copies of the publication Beyond the Face: Biometrics and Society. This study of the social consequences of mass biometric surveillance contains a detailed description of the technologies by various manufacturers that are being used for surveillance by public and private actors; including a comparative analysis of the regulations governing this area in the USA, the EU, and some countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; as well as some cases of practical application of biometric surveillance.
