The Council of Europe has participated in different panels and exchanges during the Venice Privacy Symposium 2025, from 12 to 15 May. Hanne Juncher, Director of Security, Integrity and Rule of Law, contributed to the AI and data protection tracks of the conference. She spoke first about the need for AI regulation and on how the CoE Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law can create an ideal framework for responsible AI. Ms Juncher also presented the CoE’s initiatives on data protection enforcement cooperation based on the modernized Convention 108+.
She gave an interview in which she emphasized that the Council of Europe has a series of relevant international treaties on personal data protection, cybercrime, and AI making international standards accessible for all those who wish to cooperate on these bases. She highlighted that the work of the Council of Europe and its member States together with like-minded States from all over the world as well our international and regional partners aim at furthering democracy and democratic values, upholding the rule of law and protecting human rights not just in Europe, but globally.
Other panels on cybercrime, Convention 108+, standard contractual clauses and generative AI in the field of national security also provided an opportunity to update the participants of the symposium on the latest development at the Council of Europe and its conventional committees.
Ms Beatriz de Anchorena, chair of the committee of Convention 108 as well as Mr Ousmane Thiongane, member of the Bureau, have also attended the event and spoke – among others – about the relevance of the convention in the field of cooperation between regulatory authorities and global data transfers.
