For its 50th meeting, the Bureau of the Committee of Convention 108 met on line, from Monday 28 to Wednesday 30 September 2020. Over 50 data protection experts representing states parties to Convention 108 as well as observers connected daily to the platform, some of them very early morning or very late evening, according to their time zone, as Convention 108 reaches out to all continents.

Participants pursued their discussions on priority topics of the Committee of the Convention, such as facial recognition, personal data processed in the context of education systems, profiling, digital identity, personal data processing in the context of political campaigns, and the evaluation and follow up mechanism under Convention 108.

The abridged report, agenda and working documents can be consulted here.