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🪪 Proving who we are, without giving away more than necessary? How? Perhaps a near future lies in one digital identity wallet where we have more control over our personal data.

This year, each 🇪🇺 EU Member State will offer at least one official European Digital Identity Wallet. Instead of juggling dozens of passwords or relying on ‘Log in with’ platforms, we could use a single secure wallet on our phone to store digital credentials - from our ID and driving license to university diplomas or gym card - and share only what is necessary with a high level of cybersecurity while ensuring privacy.

Welcome to the next episode of the TechDispatch Talks where we ask and answer the most crucial question on data protection and privacy 🗣️ .

On the menu:
🛡️ can wallets reduce password chaos and data oversharing?
🛡️ can it prevent profiling and tracking?
🛡️what happens if a phone is stolen?
🛡️how can we ensure privacy by design and by default?

The Digital Identity Wallet can empower citizens but only if strong data protection rules are built in from the start.

🎧 Curious? Listen to the full TechDispatch Talks episode: https://link.europa.eu/YQC74c

📖 For more details, read the full publication here: https://link.europa.eu/BJJnnj

*** Presentation of the EDPB–EDPS Joint Opinion on the Digital Omnibus proposal ***

@Supervisor@social.edps.europa.eu Wojciech Wiewiorowski together with the European Data Protection Board Deputy-Chair Jelena Virant Burnik, was invited by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU 2026 at the Council of the European Union to attend the meeting of the Antici Subgroup on Simplification, to exchange views on the recently adopted EDPB–EDPS Joint Opinion on the Digital Omnibus proposal.

On the proposed changes to ePrivacy, Wojciech Wiewiorowski underlined that the EDPS and EDPB strongly support the objective of addressing consent fatigue and the proliferation of cookie banners, while preserving the rule that information stored in the terminal equipment of end-users should remain confidential.

They equally support the Proposal to allow individuals to express their preferences via automated means. This can simplify compliance for controllers, support data subjects in making their online choices, and make such choices effective in practice.

On artificial intelligence, the Supervisor reminded that the EDPB has already clarified under which conditions legitimate interest can be used as a legal basis when developing and deploying AI models or systems. He also underlined that automated decision-making should remain prohibited in principle and that certain changes envisaged by the Proposal are likely to generate confusion in practice.

On biometric data, Wojciech Wiewiorowski welcomed that Proposal would allow its use for identity verification, provided it remains strictly limited to one-to-one verification and subject to the key safeguard that biometric data or the verification means remain under the sole control of the individual.

For more information, read the EDPB-EDPS Press release on Digital Omnibus proposal https://link.europa.eu/FQGCqv