Since the decentralizations of 2015, municipalities have had increasing responsibility within the social domain, including youth aid, the Social Support Act (Wmo 2015) and the Participation Act. Integral collaboration between professionals - often across domain boundaries - requires efficient and responsible data exchange, but this is increasingly accompanied by complex privacy issues under the General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) and additional sectoral legislation.

Digitization, data-driven work and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) present municipalities and professionals with new legal and ethical issues, especially now that supervision by the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens has been tightened and citizens are exercising their rights more frequently. The central issue is: how do you realize workable collaboration without overstepping the boundaries of privacy rules?

In this file you will find current knowledge, judgments, practical tools and opinions on privacy and data protection at municipalities: from the AVG and specific regulations such as the Participation Act, Wmo 2015 and Youth Act to recent case law and supervisory practice.