On January 28, during the National Privacy Conference of ECP and Privacy First, the annual Dutch Privacy Awards will be presented. These Awards provide a podium for organizations that see privacy as an opportunity to distinguish themselves positively and make privacy-friendly business and innovation the norm.
This year, a large number of organizations again applied with high-quality entries to participate in the Dutch Privacy Awards. After recent pitches and Q&A sessions, the independent expert jury determined the following nominees, in no particular order:
The City of Rotterdam is committed to reducing developmental delays among two- and three-year-old toddlers. Research shows that these disadvantages are hardly caught up in primary education. More than 1200 toddlers do not participate in pre-school education. It is up to the municipality and its partners (including the Center for Youth and Family) to gain insight into the problem and adjust quickly.
With the encryption technology of Roseman Labs data sets from more than 100 child care centers can be securely linked and analyzed without revealing the raw data.
The collaboration between the Municipality of Rotterdam, Roseman Labs, the Center for Youth and Family and the daycare centers demonstrates that innovative privacy technologies can be used effectively to address societal challenges while maintaining privacy protection.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the Municipality of Rotterdam and Roseman Labs for the Privacy Awards.
The Municipality of Utrecht together with design bureau Patroon Legal Design and law firm De Roos, has taken a big step in making the processes whereby the municipality processes personal data of citizens - and there are many! First we analyzed which processes are most important to citizens. We looked at the sensitivity of the data, the impact of the processing and also how often questions had been asked or the register consulted about the processing in the past. Then a very appealing design was designed in which each interaction of the citizen with the municipality is made separately visible. This allows a citizen to quickly find their way around. Attention was also paid to accessible language and testing with citizen panels during the design phase, which in turn led to modifications.
The insight offered to citizens and the scalability of this concept appeal to the jury: other municipalities can follow this example, which will help citizens gain quick and accessible insight into what is happening with their data.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the municipality of Utrecht for the Privacy Awards.
The training 'Data Ethics Conversation Leader training course' from Philosophy in Action deals with the ethical aspects of the use/processing/application of data (and thus personal data). The training focuses on privacy more broadly than just legal issues. Privacy is considered an important "value" for the organization and, of course, the people involved. With this training, Privacy Professionals, including FGs and POs, learn to put themselves in other perspectives and arrive at constructive conversations with other disciplines.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards believes that this course fills a gap in the proper attention to privacy protection within organizations. Privacy as a value and the related constructive conversations between all relevant disciplines increases support and contributes to creativity of solutions.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates Philosophy in Action for the Privacy Awards.
With project GERDA since 2022, healthcare institutions in the Achterhoek region have been sharing their production data to analyze the functioning of healthcare processes. This provides insight for taking effective improvement measures. By the end of 2024, hospital, general practitioners, elderly care, GGZ, GGD and municipalities are connected.
An important role in the project is played by the company's software Linksight.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards considers this an interesting development that promotes quality of care. GERDA's representatives report a combination of privacy-enhancing measures such as anonymizing data, not allowing analyses with too small a data set, and contractual agreements based on risk analyses.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates the GERDA project for the Privacy Awards.
PrivacyDetect is a scanner for redundant personal data that may be hidden in company records in all kinds of resumes, copies of passports, emails and so on. Redundant personal data might include duplicate storage of personal data or personal data after the retention period has expired. Employees are informed of the scan results with the responsibility of individual employees being the starting point. With Watchful, PrivacyDetect targets small and medium-sized businesses and therefore keeps the product affordable compared to alternatives and pays attention to encouraging behavioral change.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards believes that Watchful can make a substantial and practical contribution to the privacy improvement of corporate records and therefore nominates Watchful for the Privacy Awards.
Autoscriber is a software solution that allows medical professionals to record the consultation. The artificial intelligence in the software understands what is being discussed and automatically prepares a medical report. This saves the physician time and benefits the conversational contact between doctor and patient. The software is deployed by dozens of healthcare institutions and is currently being integrated with the largest electronic patient records in the Netherlands. Great attention is paid to privacy protection, such as deleting the recorded conversation as soon as the doctor has approved the proposed text.
Artifical intelligence can be a threat to privacy. The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards finds that Autoscriber's approach shows that the developers are aware of this and act accordingly.
The jury of the Dutch Privacy Awards therefore nominates Autoscriber for the Privacy Awards.
The Awards jury consists of independent privacy experts from various industries, in their personal capacity:
Jaap van der Wel
IT expert and privacy lawyer, managing partner Comfort Information Architects (jury chairman)
Mabel de Vries
Data protection officer and senior information security, risk and privacy advisor
Magdalena Magala
AVG technical coordinator, Tax Office
Rion Rijker
Privacy and information security expert and IT lawyer, Rijker Advies & Educatie
Walter van Wijk
Community manager privacy, Center for Information Security and Privacy Protection
Sanne van de Velde
Department Head of General Administrative-Legal Affairs, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management
Koen Versmissen
Owner Expertise Center Data Ethics
Marie-José Bonthuis
Data Protection Officer, IT & Privacy Lawyer
Marlon Domingus
Data Protection Officer, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Friederike van der Jagt
Owner and attorney Hunter Legal.
During the National Privacy Conference on Jan. 28 (the European Privacy Day), all nominated projects will be presented to the public by the entrants. Then the Dutch Privacy Awards can be awarded in the following categories: 1) Technology (from companies for consumers), 2) Application (within an organization or business-to-business) and 3) Awareness (government, healthcare and education). There is also the possibility of an Incentive Award.
Privacy First Foundation organizes the Dutch Privacy Awards in cooperation with ECPwith the support of Molenaar & Plasman Solutions and The DPO Centre. Media partner is PONT Data & Privacy.
